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Gentoo: GLSA-202007-32 High: Sarg Local Privilege Escalation Threat

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Calendar Grey July 26, 2020
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Vulnerability in Sarg creates potential for local privilege escalation. Update to the most recent version to address significant security threat.
A flaw in Sarg may allow local privilege escalation.

Summary

A flaw in Sarg's handling of temporary directories was discovered.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity security issue local privilege escalation software update Sarg

Resolution

All Sarg users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/sarg-2.4.0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2019-18932 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18932

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-32
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: High
Title: Sarg: Local privilege escalation
Date: July 27, 2020
Bugs: #706748
ID: 202007-32

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity security issue local privilege escalation software update Sarg

Synopsis

A flaw in Sarg may allow local privilege escalation.

Background

Sarg (Squid Analysis Report Generator) is a tool that provides many informations about the Squid web proxy server users activities: time, sites, traffic, etc.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/sarg < 2.4.0 >= 2.4.0

Impact

===== A local attacker may be able to escalate privileges.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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