CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2922
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-11-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
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 configurations
• ktsuss project ktsuss (<= 1.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2922 Broken Link
- https://lwn.net/Articles/477678/ Third Party Advisory
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/109154/Gentoo-Linux-Security-Advisory-201201-15.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/cve/CVE-2011-2922 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2922 Third Party Advisory
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-LINUX-KTSUSS-174466 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49151 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2922 Broken Link
- https://lwn.net/Articles/477678/ Third Party Advisory
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/109154/Gentoo-Linux-Security-Advisory-201201-15.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/cve/CVE-2011-2922 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2922 Third Party Advisory
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-LINUX-KTSUSS-174466 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49151 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry