CVE-2000-0864

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2000-11-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the creation of a Unix domain socket in GNOME esound 0.2.19 and earlier allows a local user to change the permissions of arbitrary files and directories, and gain additional privileges, via a symlink attack.

Affected products

GNOME Esound: 0.2.19

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-09/0095.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-09/0328.htm
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0118.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/freebsd/2000-08/0365.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2000/20001008
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/esound_daemon_race_condition.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-077.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1659
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5213
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-09/0095.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-09/0328.htm
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0118.html

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