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CentOS Update for acpid CESA-2009:1642 centos5 i386
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update for the 'acpid' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Insight
Insight
acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) events to user-space programs. 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) Please note that this flaw was due to a Red Hat-specific patch (acpid-1.0.4-fd.patch) included in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 acpid package. Users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.
Affected Software
Affected Software
acpid on CentOS 5
Solution
Solution
Please install the updated packages.