Privilege Escalation to Root in Eternal Terminal: Race Condition, Buffer Overflow, and Logic Bug in PipeSocketHandler::listen()

Privilege Escalation to Root in Eternal Terminal: Race Condition, Buffer Overflow, and Logic Bug in PipeSocketHandler::listen()

CVE-2022-24949 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A privilege escalation to root exists in Eternal Terminal prior to version 6.2.0. This is due to the combination of a race condition, buffer overflow, and logic bug all in PipeSocketHandler::listen().

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