<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201110-09"> <title>Conky: Privilege escalation</title> <synopsis>A privilege escalation vulnerability was found in Conky.</synopsis> <product type="ebuild">Conky</product> <announced>2011-10-13</announced> <revised count="1">2011-10-13</revised> <bug>354061</bug> <access>local</access> <affected> <package name="app-admin/conky" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.8.1-r2</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.8.1-r2</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>Conky is an advanced, highly configurable system monitor for X.</p> </background> <description> <p>A privilege escalation vulnerability due to an insecure temporary file was found in Conky. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>A local attacker could possibly overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running Conky. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All Conky users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/conky-1.8.1-r2" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3616">CVE-2011-3616</uri> </references> <metadata timestamp="2011-10-08T22:34:39Z" tag="requester">craig</metadata> <metadata timestamp="2011-10-13T21:46:29Z" tag="submitter"> keytoaster </metadata> </glsa>