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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.880730
Category:CentOS Local Security Checks
Title:CentOS Update for acpid CESA-2009:1642 centos5 i386
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'acpid'; package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'acpid'
package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power
Interface) events to user-space programs.

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 Red Hat-specific patch
(acpid-1.0.4-fd.patch) included in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 acpid
package.

Users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a
backported patch to correct this issue.

Affected Software/OS:
acpid on CentOS 5

Solution:
Please install the updated packages.

CVSS Score:
6.9

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-4033
1023284
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023284
37249
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37249
MDVSA-2009:342
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:342
RHSA-2009:1642
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1642.html
acpid-logfile-privilege-escalation(54677)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54677
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515062
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542926
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10555
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10555
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