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Debian 0.140-5+deb7u1 Critical: Acpi-Support Root Escalation

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Calendar Grey July 22, 2014
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Important patch for Fedora kernel package addresses privilege escalation vulnerability. Secure your system by updating immediately.
CESG discovered a root escalation flaw in the acpi-support package

Summary

CESG discovered a root escalation flaw in the acpi-support package. An
unprivileged user can inject the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment
variable to run arbitrary commands as root user via the policy-funcs
script.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.140-5+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.142-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.142-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your acpi-support packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: acpi-support
CVE ID: CVE-2014-1419

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