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CVE-2009-4033

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.9 Published: 2009-12-08 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

A certain Red Hat patch for acpid 1.0.4 effectively triggers a call to the open function with insufficient arguments, which might allow local users to leverage weak permissions on /var/log/acpid, and obtain sensitive information by reading this file, cause a denial of service by overwriting this file, or gain privileges by executing this file.

Affected Platforms

Tim Hockin Acpid

Weakness Type

CWE-264

References