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acpid: privilege escalation

Package(s):acpid CVE #(s):CVE-2009-4033
Created:December 7, 2009 Updated:December 28, 2009
Description:

From the Red Hat advisory:

It was discovered that acpid could create its log file ("/var/log/acpid") with random permissions on some systems. A local attacker could use this flaw to escalate their privileges if the log file was created as world-writable and with the setuid or setgid bit set. (CVE-2009-4033)

Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:342 2009-12-26
CentOS CESA-2009:1642 2009-12-18
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1642-02 2009-12-07

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