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HistoryDec 10, 2009 - 12:00 a.m.

RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1642

2009-12-1000:00:00
Copyright (C) 2009 E-Soft Inc.
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6.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.2%

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2009:1642.

acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power
Interface) events to user-space programs.

It was discovered that acpid could create its log file (/var/log/acpid)
with random permissions on some systems. A local attacker could use this
flaw to escalate their privileges if the log file was created as
world-writable and with the setuid or setgid bit set. (CVE-2009-4033)

Please note that this flaw was due to a Red Hat-specific patch
(acpid-1.0.4-fd.patch) included in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 acpid
package.

Users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a
backported patch to correct this issue.

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 E-Soft Inc.
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.66358");
  script_version("2024-03-21T05:06:54+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-03-21 05:06:54 +0000 (Thu, 21 Mar 2024)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-12-10 00:23:54 +0100 (Thu, 10 Dec 2009)");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2009-4033");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.9");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_name("RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1642");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 E-Soft Inc.");
  script_family("Red Hat Local Security Checks");
  script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/rhel", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=RHENT_5");
  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network.  To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red
Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date");
  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2009:1642.

acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power
Interface) events to user-space programs.

It was discovered that acpid could create its log file (/var/log/acpid)
with random permissions on some systems. A local attacker could use this
flaw to escalate their privileges if the log file was created as
world-writable and with the setuid or setgid bit set. (CVE-2009-4033)

Please note that this flaw was due to a Red Hat-specific patch
(acpid-1.0.4-fd.patch) included in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 acpid
package.

Users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a
backported patch to correct this issue.");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1642.html");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important");

  exit(0);
}

include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");

res = "";
report = "";
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"acpid", rpm:"acpid~1.0.4~9.el5_4.1", rls:"RHENT_5")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"acpid-debuginfo", rpm:"acpid-debuginfo~1.0.4~9.el5_4.1", rls:"RHENT_5")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}

if (report != "") {
    security_message(data:report);
} else if (__pkg_match) {
    exit(99);
}

6.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.2%