CVE-2000-0864: Gnome Esound

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Gnome Esound: version 0.2.19 only

Published 2000-11-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.