FKIE_CVE-2011-4578

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-08-29 22:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:35
Severity
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://sourceforge.net/u/tedfelix/acpid2/ci/02d0bf29207f17996936ab652717855b15873901/tree/Changelog?force=True
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:138
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/06/3
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpid/+bug/893821
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=760984
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://sourceforge.net/u/tedfelix/acpid2/ci/02d0bf29207f17996936ab652717855b15873901/tree/Changelog?force=True
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:138
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/06/3
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpid/+bug/893821
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=760984
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
tedfelix acpid2 *
tedfelix acpid2 2.0.0
tedfelix acpid2 2.0.1
tedfelix acpid2 2.0.2
tedfelix acpid2 2.0.3
tedfelix acpid2 2.0.4
tedfelix acpid2 2.0.5
tedfelix acpid2 2.0.6
tedfelix acpid2 2.0.7
tedfelix acpid2 2.0.8
tedfelix acpid2 2.0.9
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