CVE-2011-2922

high

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.

References

Advisories

https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49151

https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-LINUX-KTSUSS-174466

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2922

https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/cve/CVE-2011-2922

https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/109154/Gentoo-Linux-Security-Advisory-201201-15.html

https://lwn.net/Articles/477678/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-11-19

Updated: 2019-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H