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portage: privilege escalation

Package(s):

portage

CVE #(s):

CVE-2008-4394

Created:

October 10, 2008

Updated:

October 15, 2008

Description:

From the Gentoo advisory: A search path vulnerability in Portage allows local attackers to execute commands with root privileges if emerge is called from untrusted directories.

Alerts:

Gentoo

200810-02

2008-10-09

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