Gentoo Portage
By the Year
In 2024 there have been 1 vulnerability in Gentoo Portage with an average score of 9.8 out of ten. Portage did not have any published security vulnerabilities last year. That is, 1 more vulnerability have already been reported in 2024 as compared to last year.
| Year | Vulnerabilities | Average Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 9.80 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2020 | 1 | 5.50 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0.00 |
It may take a day or so for new Portage vulnerabilities to show up in the stats or in the list of recent security vulnerabilties. Additionally vulnerabilities may be tagged under a different product or component name.
Recent Gentoo Portage Security Vulnerabilities
In Gentoo Portage before 3.0.47
CVE-2016-20021
9.8 - Critical
- January 12, 2024
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.
Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
Gentoo Portage through 2.3.84
CVE-2019-20384
5.5 - Medium
- January 21, 2020
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.
Improper Preservation of Permissions
Portage before 2.0.50-r3
CVE-2004-1901
5.5 - Medium
- December 31, 2004
Portage before 2.0.50-r3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a hard link attack on the lockfiles.
insecure temporary file
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