Security Advisory

CVE-2006-2916

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-06-15 10:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 18:06:27

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

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.

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