Description
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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
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References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37249 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542926 ↗
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1023284 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515062 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10555 ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1642.html ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54677 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:342 ↗