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CVE-2011-2922

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CVE-2011-2922

Published: Nov 19, 2019

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

ktsuss

ktsuss

affected
1.4 and prior

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