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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="201110-09">
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<title>Conky: Privilege escalation</title>
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<synopsis>A privilege escalation vulnerability was found in Conky.</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">Conky</product>
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<announced>October 13, 2011</announced>
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<revised>October 13, 2011: 1</revised>
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<bug>354061</bug>
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<access>local</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="app-admin/conky" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">1.8.1-r2</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">1.8.1-r2</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>Conky is an advanced, highly configurable system monitor for X.</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>A privilege escalation vulnerability due to an insecure temporary file
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was found in Conky.
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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="normal">
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<p>A local attacker could possibly overwrite arbitrary files with the
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privileges of the user running Conky.
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</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>All Conky users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/conky-1.8.1-r2"
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</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3616">CVE-2011-3616</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata timestamp="Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:34:39 +0000" tag="requester">craig</metadata>
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<metadata timestamp="Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:46:29 +0000" tag="submitter">
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keytoaster
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</metadata>
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</glsa>
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