High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Nov 19, 2019· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2011-2922

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.

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Affected products

Ktsuss Project/Ktsuss
cpe:2.3:a:ktsuss_project:ktsuss:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <=1.4
Heimdal/Ktsussllm-create2 versions
<=1.4+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <=1.4
- (no CPE)range: 1.4 and prior

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References

lwn.net/Articles/477678/nvdThird Party Advisory
packetstormsecurity.com/files/109154/Gentoo-Linux-Security-Advisory-201201-15.htmlnvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
packetstormsecurity.com/files/cve/CVE-2011-2922nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2922nvdThird Party Advisory
snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-LINUX-KTSUSS-174466nvdThird Party Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/49151nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2922nvdBroken Link

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