CVE-2008-0162

HIGH 7.2CVE-2008-0162 · Published 22/02/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-0162 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.2) vulnerability affecting splitvt (sam lantinga).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.35%, higher than 28.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
splitvt sam_lantinga	`≤ 1.6.6`	No fix yet

misc.c in splitvt 1.6.6 and earlier does not drop group privileges before executing xprop, which allows local users to gain privileges.

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