Gentoo Linux: CVE-2011-2922: ktsuss: Privilege escalation
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(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
01/27/2012
07/25/2018
10/30/2017
11/25/2019
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.
Solution(s)
- gentoo-linux-upgrade-x11-misc-ktsuss
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