CVE-2009-4033

A certain Red Hat patch for acpid 1.0.4 effectively triggers a call to the open function with insufficient arguments, which might allow local users to leverage weak permissions on /var/log/acpid, and obtain sensitive information by reading this file, cause a denial of service by overwriting this file, or gain privileges by executing this file.

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.9 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2009-12-08

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected products

• Acpid (Tim Hockin)

References

• http://securitytracker.com/id?1023284
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:342
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1642.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37249
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515062
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542926
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54677
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10555