CVE-2009-4033

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.9
Exploit probability—
ProductTim Hockin Acpid
PublishedDec 8, 2009
First seenDec 8, 2009

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
tim_hockin acpid1.0.4—

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