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.
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Published : 2009-12-08 19:30
Updated : 2025-04-09 00:30
NVD link : CVE-2009-4033
Mitre link : CVE-2009-4033
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2009-4033
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Products Affected
tim_hockin
- acpid
CWE
CWE-264
Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls