CVE-2011-4578 (GCVE-0-2011-4578)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-08-29 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 00:09
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Summary
event.c in acpid (aka acpid2) before 2.0.11 does not have an appropriate umask setting during execution of event-handler scripts, which might allow local users to (1) perform write operations within directories created by a script, or (2) read files created by a script, via standard filesystem system calls.
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