CVE-2011-2922

EPSS 0.7%

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 0.7%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

19 Nov 2019Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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