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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201812-08">
  <title>Scala: Privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in Scala could result in privilege escalation.</synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">scala</product>
  <announced>2018-12-15</announced>
  <revised count="1">2018-12-15</revised>
  <bug>637940</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-lang/scala" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.12.4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.12.4</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Scala combines object-oriented and functional programming in one
      concise, high-level language.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>It was discovered that Scala’s compilation daemon does not properly
      manage permissions for private files.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A local attacker could escalate privileges.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Scala users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-lang/scala-2.12.4"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15288">CVE-2017-15288</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-12-02T21:21:35Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-12-15T20:11:15Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>