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Gentoo: GLSA-200606-22 High: aRts Privilege Escalation Threat

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Calendar Grey June 22, 2006
Scroller Gentoo
The Gentoo GLSA 200706-34 outlines a critical security vulnerability in Gnome, demanding urgent action.
The artswrapper part of aRts allows local users to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200606-22 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: aRts: Privilege escalation Date: June 22, 2006 Bugs: #135970 ID: 200606-22

Synopsis ======= The artswrapper part of aRts allows local users to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
Background ========= aRts is a real time modular system for synthesizing audio used by KDE. artswrapper is a helper application used to start the aRts daemon.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 kde-base/arts < 3.5.2-r1 >= 3.5.2-r1 *>= 3.4.3-r1
========== artswrapper fails to properly check whether it ca...

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