Debian DSA-2362-1 : acpid - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 57502

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in the ACPI Daemon, the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface event daemon :

- CVE-2011-1159 Vasiliy Kulikov of OpenWall discovered that the socket handling is vulnerable to denial of service.

- CVE-2011-2777 Oliver-Tobias Ripka discovered that incorrect process handling in the Debian-specific powerbtn.sh script could lead to local privilege escalation. This issue doesn't affect oldstable. The script is only shipped as an example in /usr/share/doc/acpid/examples. See /usr/share/doc/acpid/README.Debian for details.

- CVE-2011-4578 Helmut Grohne and Michael Biebl discovered that acpid sets a umask of 0 when executing scripts, which could result in local privilege escalation.

Solution

Upgrade the acpid packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.8-1lenny4.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.0.7-1squeeze3.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 57502

File Name: debian_DSA-2362.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 1/12/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:acpid, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/10/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1159, CVE-2011-2777, CVE-2011-4578

BID: 45915, 50945, 50993

DSA: 2362

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