GKSu: Arbitrary command execution

GKSu: Arbitrary command execution A vulnerability in GKSu might allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands. gksu 2018-12-30 2018-12-30 534540 remote 2.0.2

A library that provides a Gtk+ frontend to su and sudo.

A vulnerability was discovered in GKSu’s gksu-run-helper.

An attacker could execute arbitrary commands.

There is no known workaround at this time.

Gentoo has discontinued support for GKSu and recommends that users unmerge the package:


      # emerge --unmerge "x11-libs/gksu"

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