Mageia alert MGASA-2012-0216 (acpid)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2012-0216: acpid-2.0.14-4.1.mga2 (2/core) 
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Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:02:07 +0200
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MGASA-2012-0216
Date: 	August 12th, 2012
Affected releases: 	2


Description:
Updated acpid package fixes security vulnerabilities:

Oliver-Tobias Ripka discovered that an ACPI script incorrectly handled
power button events. A local attacker could use this to execute
arbitrary code, and possibly escalate privileges. The script is
installed as /usr/share/doc/acpid/samples/powerbtn/powerbtn.sh, so this
only affects systems where this has been added to the acpi configuration
(CVE-2011-2777).


Updated Packages:
acpid-2.0.14-4.1.mga2


References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2777
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7003
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-...