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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-08 Critical: Portage Unauthorized Directory Escalation

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Calendar Grey October 9, 2008
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Regional intruders might take advantage of this insecure path flaw in Gentoo Portage, allowing them to run commands with administrative rights.
A search path vulnerability in Portage allows local attackers to execute commands with root privileges if emerge is called from untrusted directories

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200810-02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Portage: Untrusted search path local root vulnerability Date: October 09, 2008 Bugs: #239560 ID: 200810-02

Synopsis ======= A search path vulnerability in Portage allows local attackers to execute commands with root privileges if emerge is called from untrusted directories.
Background ========= Portage is Gentoo's package manager which is responsible for installing, compiling and updating all packages on the system through the Gentoo rsync tree.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 sys-apps/portage < 2.1.4.5 >= 2.1.4.5
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