CVE-2009-4235

published 2009-12-08

CVE-2009-4235: acpid 1.0.4 sets an unrestrictive umask, which might allow local users to leverage weak permissions on /var/log/acpid, and obtain sensitive information by…

Priority P4 14 medium 6.9 CVSS 2.0

AV L AC M Au N C C I C A C

acpid 1.0.4 sets an unrestrictive umask, which might allow local users to leverage weak permissions on /var/log/acpid, and obtain sensitive information by reading this file or cause a denial of service by overwriting this file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-4033.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	acpid	< acpid 1.0.6 (bookworm)	acpid 1.0.6 (bookworm)
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

nvd v2.0 6.9 MEDIUM AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

osv 6.9 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 6.9 LOW

vendor_redhat 6.9 MEDIUM

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