Race condition vulnerability in GNOME esound 0.2.19 and earlier allows local privilege escalation via symlink attack in Unix domain socket creation.

CVE-2000-0864 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:H/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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