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

Weakness classification (CWE)

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