beep: Local privilege escalation — GLSA 201805-15

A vulnerability in beep could allow local attackers to escalate privileges.

Package	app-misc/beep on all architectures
Affected versions	< 1.3-r3
Unaffected versions	>= 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"

Release date
May 30, 2018

Latest revision
May 30, 2018: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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