CVE-2006-2916 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in artswrapper within aRts, affecting KDE and Linux kernel versions 2.6.0 and later. When artswrapper runs as setuid root, it fails to verify the return value of the setuid function, allowing local users to prevent artsd from dropping privileges and thereby gain root access. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.8) has a low attack complexity and can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:kde:arts:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:kde:arts:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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