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
Comments: To: "scientific-linux-errata@fnal.gov"
          

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