CVE-2009-4033

Published Dec 8, 2009

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: secalert@redhat.com
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 6.9
Impact score: 10
Exploitability score: 3.4
Vector string: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-264

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "4A178536-8705-40C9-85BE-C69172EF8493"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References