CVE-2000-0864

Published: Nov 14, 2000Modified: Apr 16, 2026

6.2

Vector

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

Exploitability: 1.9 / Impact: 10.0

Source: NVD

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.

Affected (1)

Products: Gnome: Esound

Gnome

1 product

Esound

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Gnome Esound	Version 0.2.19

Related CWEs

CWE-362

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.

References (18)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-09/0095.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-09/0328.htm

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0118.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/freebsd/2000-08/0365.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.debian.org/security/2000/20001008

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/esound_daemon_race_condition.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-077.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1659

Source: cve@mitre.org

ExploitPatchVendor Advisory

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5213

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-09/0095.html