CVE-2008-1132

MEDIUM 4.7CVE-2008-1132 · Published 04/03/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-1132 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.7) vulnerability affecting net activity viewer (net activity viewer).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.31%, higher than 23.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
net activity viewer net_activity_viewer	`= 0.2.1`	No fix yet

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in src/mainwindow.c in Net Activity Viewer 0.2.1 allows local users with Net Activity Viewer privileges to execute arbitrary code via a malicious gksu program, which is invoked during the Restart As Root action.

References

secunia.com/advisories/29097 · Vendor Advisory
sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php · Patch

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