Debian Security Advisory DSA-4163-1 beep -- security update Date Reported: 02 Apr 2018 Affected Packages: beep Vulnerable: Yes Security database references: In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-0492. More information: It was discovered that a race condition in beep (if configured as setuid via debconf) allows local privilege escalation. For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been