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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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2009-12-08T19:00:00

Updated: 2017-09-18T12:57:01

Reserved: 2009-11-20T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2009-4033

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-12-08T19:30:00.217

Modified: 2017-09-19T01:29:54.610


Link: CVE-2009-4033

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