RHEL 5 : acpid (RHSA-2009:1642)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 43047

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated acpid package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

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.

Solution

Update the affected acpid package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2009-4033

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1642

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 43047

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2009-1642.nasl

Version: 1.35

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/8/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:acpid, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.4

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/8/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-4033, CVE-2009-4235

CWE: 264

IAVA: 2009-A-0135

RHSA: 2009:1642