CVE-2009-4033: 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…

PriorityP417medium6.9CVSS 2.0

AVLACMAuNCCICAC

EPSS

0.31%

22.5th percentile

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.

Affected

7 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	acpid	< acpid 1.0.6 (bookworm)	acpid 1.0.6 (bookworm)
debian	acpid	—	—
tim_hockin	acpid	—	—
tim_hockin	acpid	>= 0 < 1.0.6	1.0.6
tim_hockin	acpid	>= 0 < 1.0.6	1.0.6
tim_hockin	acpid	>= 0 < 1.0.6	1.0.6
tim_hockin	acpid	>= 0 < 1.0.6	1.0.6

CVSS provenance

nvdv2.06.9MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

osv6.9MEDIUM

vendor_debian6.9LOW

vendor_redhat6.9MEDIUM

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