CVE-2006-2916: Kde Arts

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

artswrapper in aRts, when running setuid root on Linux 2.6.0 or later versions, does not check the return value of the setuid function call, which allows local users to gain root privileges by causing setuid to fail, which prevents artsd from dropping privileges.

Affected products

• Kde Arts: version 1.0 only; version 1.2 only

Published 2006-06-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.