Conky: Privilege escalation

Background

Conky is an advanced, highly configurable system monitor for X.

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability due to an insecure temporary file was found in Conky.

Impact

A local attacker could possibly overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running Conky.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Conky users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/conky-1.8.1-r2"