CVE-2011-2922 (GCVE-0-2011-2922)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-11-19 18:08 – Updated: 2024-08-06 23:15
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- UNKNOWN_TYPE
Assigner
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