Scientific Linux 5.x: 2009-4033 Important: acpid Log Permissions Issue

Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:08:25 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: acpid on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Important: acpid security update
Issue date:	2009-12-07
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-4033

CVE-2009-4033 acpid: log file created with random permissions

It was discovered that acpid could create its log file
("/var/log/acpid") with random permissions on some systems. A local
attacker could use this flaw to escalate their privileges if the log
file was created as world-writable and with the setuid or setgid bit
set. (CVE-2009-4033)

Please note that this flaw was due to a specific patch
(acpid-1.0.4-fd.patch) included in the Scientific Linux 5 acpid
package.

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
acpid-1.0.4-9.el5_4.1.src.rpm
 i386:
acpid-1.0.4-9.el5_4.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
acpid-1.0.4-9.el5_4.1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson