Portage

Gentoo Portage through 2.3.84 allows local users to place a Trojan horse plugin in the /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins directory by leveraging access to the nagios user account, because this directory is writable in between a call to emake and a call to fowners.

Published: 2020-01-20T23:52:47.000Z
Updated: 2024-08-05T02:39:09.220Z

In Gentoo Portage before 3.0.47, there is missing PGP validation of executed code: the standalone emerge-webrsync downloads a .gpgsig file but does not perform signature verification. Unless emerge-webrsync is used, Portage is not vulnerable.

Published: 2024-01-12T00:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2025-06-03T14:07:01.657Z

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in Portage before 2.1.4.5 include the current working directory in the Python search path, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a modified Python module that is loaded by the (1) ys-apps/portage, (2) net-mail/fetchmail, (3) app-editors/leo ebuilds, and other ebuilds.

Published: 2008-10-10T10:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2024-08-07T10:17:09.270Z

etc-update in Portage before 2.1.3.11 on Gentoo Linux relies on the umask to set permissions for the merge file, often resulting in permissions weaker than those of the original files, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the merge file.

Published: 2007-12-15T01:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2024-08-07T16:02:36.433Z

Ebuild in Gentoo may change directory and file permissions depending on the order of installed packages, which allows local users to read or write to restricted directories or execute restricted commands via navigating to the affected directories, or executing the affected commands.

Published: 2017-06-27T20:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2024-08-08T01:36:25.401Z

Portage before 2.0.50-r3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a hard link attack on the lockfiles.

Published: 2005-05-10T04:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2025-01-16T18:09:40.758Z