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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.70574
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2362-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'acpid' package(s) announced via the DSA-2362-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'acpid' package(s) announced via the DSA-2362-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Multiple vulnerabilities were found in the ACPI Daemon, the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface event daemon:

CVE-2011-1159

Vasiliy Kulikov of OpenWall discovered that the socket handling is vulnerable to denial of service.

CVE-2011-2777

Oliver-Tobias Ripka discovered that incorrect process handling in the Debian-specific powerbtn.sh script could lead to local privilege escalation. This issue doesn't affect oldstable. The script is only shipped as an example in /usr/share/doc/acpid/examples. See /usr/share/doc/acpid/README.Debian for details.

CVE-2011-4578

Helmut Grohne and Michael Biebl discovered that acpid sets a umask of 0 when executing scripts, which could result in local privilege escalation.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.8-1lenny4.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.0.7-1squeeze3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your acpid packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'acpid' package(s) on Debian 5, Debian 6.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
4.6

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-1159
BugTraq ID: 45915
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45915
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060053.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059880.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/19/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/12
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/7
http://secunia.com/advisories/42947
http://secunia.com/advisories/44621
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-4578
MDVSA-2012:138
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:138
[oss-security] 20111206 Re: CVE request: acpid
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/06/3
http://sourceforge.net/u/tedfelix/acpid2/ci/02d0bf29207f17996936ab652717855b15873901/tree/Changelog?force=True
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpid/+bug/893821
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=760984
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