Eric Romang has reported a vulnerability in eix, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to temporary files being created insecurely. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running eix.

Solution
Update "app-portage/eix" to 0.5.0_pre2 or 0.3.0-r2 or later.

Provided and/or discovered by
Eric Romang

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Original Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-19.xml

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