Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
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.
Affected
acpid on CentOS 5
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-4033 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.9
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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