CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-4033
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-12-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
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 configurations
• tim hockin acpid 1.0.4
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1023284 securitytracker.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:342 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1642.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37249 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515062 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542926 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54677 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10555 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1023284 securitytracker.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:342 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1642.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37249 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515062 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542926 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54677 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10555 oval.cisecurity.org