beep: Local privilege escalation

beep: Local privilege escalation A vulnerability in beep could allow local attackers to escalate privileges. beep 2018-05-30 2018-05-30 652330 remote 1.3-r3 1.3-r3

The advanced PC speaker beeper.

A race condition, if setuid, was discovered in beep.

A local attacker could escalate privileges.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All beep users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-misc/beep-1.3-r3"

CVE-2018-0492 b-man b-man