VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2018-0492

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
8.0

Description

Johnathan Nightingale beep through 1.3.4, if setuid, has a race condition that allows local privilege escalation.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-0492

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.3-5
debian debianbullseyefixed1.3-5
debian debianforkyfixed1.3-5
debian debiansidfixed1.3-5
debian debiantrixiefixed1.3-5
arch archfixed1.4.4-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.