source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37996/info Battery Life Toolkit (BLTK) is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. A local attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges, resulting in the complete compromise of the affected computer. This issue affects BLTK 1.0.9; other versions may be vulnerable as well. The following proof of concept is available: /usr/lib/bltk/bin/bltk_sudo /bin/bash