CVE-2006-2916

Upstream information

CVE-2006-2916 at MITRE

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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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6
Vector	AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	High
Authentication	Single
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 180223 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SR:2006:015, published Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:00:00 +0000

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:11:12 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:16:37 2023