uptimed: Root Privilege Escalation

uptimed: Root Privilege Escalation A vulnerability has been discovered in uptimed which could result in root privilege escalation. uptimed 2023-05-03 2023-05-03 630810 remote 0.4.6-r1 0.4.6-r1

uptimed is a system uptime record daemon that keeps track of your highest uptimes.

Via unnecessary file ownership modifications in the pkg_postinst ebuild phase, the uptimed user could change arbitrary files to be owned by the uptimed user at emerge-time.

The uptimed user could achieve root privileges when the uptimed package is emerged.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All uptimed users should upgrade to the latest version:


          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-misc/uptimed-0.4.6-r1"

CVE-2020-36657 ajak sam