CVE-2009-4235 Information

Description

acpid 1.0.4 sets an unrestrictive umask which might allow local users to leverage weak permissions on /var/log/acpid and obtain sensitive information by reading this file or cause a denial of service by overwriting this file a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-4033.

Reference

http://securitytracker.com/id?1023284 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1960 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:342 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:343 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1642.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515062 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542926 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54676