CVE-2000-0864

Gnome Esound - Race Condition

Title source: rule

Description

Race condition in the creation of a Unix domain socket in GNOME esound 0.2.19 and earlier allows a local user to change the permissions of arbitrary files and directories, and gain additional privileges, via a symlink attack.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WRITEUP VERIFIED

by Kris Kennaway · textlocalunix

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20212

View Code ZIP pw:eip

References (9)

[Third Party Advisory] http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-09/0095.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-09/0328.htm

[Third Party Advisory] http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0118.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/freebsd/2000-08/0365.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-077.html

[Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1659

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/esound_daemon_race_condition.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2000/20001008

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5213

Scores

EPSS 0.0005

EPSS Percentile 15.3%

Classification

CWE

CWE-362

Status draft

Affected Products (1)

gnome/esound

Timeline

Published Nov 14, 2000

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026