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Star Tape Archiver Local SetUID Vulnerability

Solution:
Gentoo has released advisory GLSA 200409-11 dealing with this issue. They advise all users to upgrade their implementation to the latest version with the following sequence of commands:

# emerge sync

# emerge -pv ">=app-arch/star-1.5_alpha46"
# emerge ">=app-arch/star-1.5_alpha46"

For more information please see the referenced Gentoo advisory.

The vendor has released an upgrade dealing with this issue.