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<?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>October 13, 2011</announced>
  <revised>October 13, 2011: 1</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 "&gt;=app-admin/conky-1.8.1-r2"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3616">CVE-2011-3616</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata timestamp="Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:34:39 +0000" tag="requester">craig</metadata>
  <metadata timestamp="Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:46:29 +0000" tag="submitter">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
</glsa>