MiracleLinux 3 : acpid-1.0.4-7AXS3.1 (AXSA:2009-55:01)

The remote MiracleLinux 3 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2009-55:01 advisory. acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI events to user-space programs. Fixed bugs: CVE-2009-0798: The daemon in acpid before 1.0.10 allows remote attackers to...

EUVD-2011-2751

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EUVD-2009-4004

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EUVD-2011-1169

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EUVD-2011-4504

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EUVD-2009-4204

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CVE-2011-2777

samples/powerbtn/powerbtn.sh in acpid aka acpid2 2.0.16 and earlier uses the pidof program incorrectly, which allows local users to gain privileges by running a program with the name kded4 and a DBUSSESSIONBUSADDRESS environment variable containing commands...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2011-4578

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - 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...

SUSE CVE-2009-4033

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...

CVE-2011-1159

acpid.c in acpid before 2.0.9 does not properly handle a situation in which a process has connected to acpid.socket but is not reading any data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service daemon hang via a crafted application that performs a connect system call but no read system calls...

CVE-2009-4235

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...

CVE-2009-4235

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...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : acpid vulnerability (USN-766-1)

It was discovered that acpid did not properly handle a large number of connections. A local user could exploit this and monopolize CPU resources, leading to a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security...