Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200411-13 (portage gentoolkit)

Summary
The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200411-13.
Solution
All Portage users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=sys-apps/portage-2.0.51-r3' All Gentoolkit users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8-r1' http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=GLSA%20200411-13 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68846 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69147
Insight
dispatch-conf (included in Portage) and qpkg (included in Gentoolkit) are vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files with the rights of the user running the script.