CVE-2009-4033

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

7.8

MODERATE

Vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.04

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
(RHSA-2009:1642) Important: acpid security update acpid-1.0.4-9.el5_4.1.i386.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2009:1642) Important: acpid security update acpid-1.0.4-9.el5_4.1.x86_64.rpm	Linux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234