CVE-2009-4033 (GCVE-0-2009-4033)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2009-12-08 19:00
Modified
2024-08-07 06:45
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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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