CVE-2011-2922

3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 0.7%

exploitation probability

0.7%top 50% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

ktsuss versions 1.4 and prior spawns the GTK interface to run as root. This can allow a local attacker to escalate privileges to root and use the "GTK_MODULES" environment variable to possibly execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

ktsuss · ktsuss

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2922 https://lwn.net/Articles/477678/https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/109154/Gentoo-Linux-Security-Advisory-201201-15.html https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/cve/CVE-2011-2922 https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2922 https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-LINUX-KTSUSS-174466 https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49151