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.
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Configurations
Information
Published : 2009-12-08 11:30
Updated : 2017-09-18 18:29
NVD link : CVE-2009-4033
Mitre link : CVE-2009-4033
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CWE
CWE-264
Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
Products Affected
tim_hockin
- acpid