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CVE-2006-2916

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-06-15 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-273

Description

artswrapper in aRts, when running setuid root on Linux 2.6.0 or later versions, does not check the return value of the setuid function call, which allows local users to gain root privileges by causing setuid to fail, which prevents artsd from dropping privileges.

Affected products

• KDE Arts: 1.0, 1.2

References

• http://dot.kde.org/1150310128/
• http://mail.gnome.org/archives/beast/2006-December/msg00025.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20677
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20786
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20827
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20868
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20899
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25032
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25059
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-22.xml
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016298
• http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.468256

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