Sarg: Local privilege escalation

Background

Sarg (Squid Analysis Report Generator) is a tool that provides many informations about the Squid web proxy server users activities: time, sites, traffic, etc.

Description

A flaw in Sarg’s handling of temporary directories was discovered.

Impact

A local attacker may be able to escalate privileges.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Sarg users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/sarg-2.4.0"