CVE-2011-4578 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://sourceforge.net/u/tedfelix/acpid2/ci/02d0bf29207f17996936ab652717855b15873901/tree/Changelog?force=True http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:138 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/06/3 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpid/+bug/893821 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=760984