FKIE_CVE-2009-4033
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2009-12-08 19:30 - Updated: 2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| tim_hockin | acpid | 1.0.4 |
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Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date |
|---|
Nomenclature
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- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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