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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2019-11-19T18:08:30

Updated: 2024-08-06T23:15:32.119Z

Reserved: 2011-07-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2011-2922

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2019-11-19T19:15:14.783

Modified: 2019-11-21T15:28:40.360

Link: CVE-2011-2922

cve-icon Redhat

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