Facter: Privilege escalation — GLSA 201412-45

An untrusted search path vulnerability in Facter could lead to local privilege escalation.

Package	dev-ruby/facter on all architectures
Affected versions	< 1.7.6
Unaffected versions	>= 1.7.6

Facter is a cross-platform Ruby library for retrieving facts from operating systems.

Facter includes the current working directory in the search path.

A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Facter users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-ruby/facter-1.7.6"

Release date
December 26, 2014

Latest revision
December 26, 2014: 1

Severity
high

Exploitable
local

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