CVE-2009-4033
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 8, 2009
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 20, 2009
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 37249vdb-entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542926
- 1023284vdb-entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515062
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10555vdb-entrysignature
- RHSA-2009:1642vendor-advisory
- acpid-logfile-privilege-escalation(54677)vdb-entry
- MDVSA-2009:342vendor-advisory
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