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CVE-2009-4033
Published: Dec 8, 2009
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
37249
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542926
x_refsource_CONFIRM
1023284
vdb-entry
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515062
x_refsource_CONFIRM
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10555
vdb-entry
signature
x_refsource_OVAL
RHSA-2009:1642
vendor-advisory
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acpid-logfile-privilege-escalation(54677)
vdb-entry
x_refsource_XF
MDVSA-2009:342
vendor-advisory
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