CVE-2011-4578
N/A
Published: August 29, 2012 at 10:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:35 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorACPID2
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
Description
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 (1) perform write operations within directories created by a script, or (2) read files created by a script, via standard filesystem system calls.
Remediation
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Patch and advisory references
References (5)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:138Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/06/3x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpid/+bug/893821Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-264
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