CVE-2009-4033 Information

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.

Reference

http://securitytracker.com/id?1023284 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:342 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1642.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37249 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515062 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542926 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54677 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10555