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CVE-2009-4033

N/A
Published: December 8, 2009 at 07:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:12 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorAcpid

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (8)

VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Source: [email protected]
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023284
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:342
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1642.html
VDB Entryx_refsource_BID
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37249
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515062
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542926
VDB Entryx_refsource_XF
Source: [email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54677
VDB EntrySignaturex_refsource_OVAL
Source: [email protected]
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10555

CVSS

6.9MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-264

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