CVE-2009-4235

Description

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54676

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542926

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515062

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1642.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:343

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:342

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1960

http://securitytracker.com/id?1023284

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3