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CVE-2011-2922

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• 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: none known
• Published: 2019-11-19 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

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.

Affected products

• ktsuss: through 1.4

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
• 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

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