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Debian 4: DSA-1960-1 Critical: Acpid Weak Permissions Local Threat

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Calendar Grey December 20, 2009
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Debian Security Notice DSA-1961-2 resolves inadequate access controls in apache2, mitigating potential local vulnerabilities and enhancing overall system integrity.
It was discovered that acpid, the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface event daemon, on the oldstable distribution (etch) creates its log file with weak permissions, which mi...

Summary


For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.4-5etch2.

The stable distribution (lenny) in version 1.0.8-1lenny2 and the
unstable distribution (sid) in version 1.0.10-5, have been updated to
fix the weak file permissions of the log file created by older
versions.


We recommend that you upgrade your acpid packages.


Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch

Debian (oldstable)
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Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 ch...

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