Vulnerability in Canonical Acpi-Support
CVE-2014-1419
Race condition in the power policy functions in policy-funcs in acpi-support before 0.142 allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.
Vulnerability class: Race Condition
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.9 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.003 (17.7th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 18th percentile — 17.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Canonical Acpi-Support
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 12.04
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/1340812
- secunia.com/advisories/60319 (third-party-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2297-1 (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2984 (vendor-advisory)