Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in acpid:
Oliver-Tobias Ripka discovered that an ACPI script incorrectly handled power button events. A local attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code, and possibly escalate privileges (CVE-2011-2777).
Helmut Grohne and Michael Biebl discovered that ACPI scripts were executed with a permissive file mode creation mask (umask). A local attacker could read files and modify directories created by ACPI scripts that did not set a strict umask (CVE-2011-4578).
The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.
Affected
acpid on Mandriva Linux 2011.0
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-2777, CVE-2011-4578 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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