Vulnerability in Tim Hockin Acpid
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.
EPSS: 0.003 (23.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Tim_hockin Acpid — versions 1.0.4
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secalert@redhat.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- secalert@redhat.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- secalert@redhat.com (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA)