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ELSA-2009-1642 Important: Enterprise Linux acpid security update

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ELSA-2009-1642 Important: Enterprise Linux acpid security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
12/08/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/20/2011
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-acpid

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