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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2009-12-08T19:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T06:45:51.054Z

Reserved: 2009-11-20T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-4033

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-12-08T19:30:00.217

Modified: 2017-09-19T01:29:54.610

Link: CVE-2009-4033

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2009-12-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-4033 - Bugzilla