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Debian DSA-1960-1 : acpid - programming error

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44825

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that acpid, the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface event daemon, on the oldstable distribution (etch) creates its log file with weak permissions, which might expose sensitive information or might be abused by a local user to consume all free disk space on the same partition of the file.

Solution

Upgrade the acpid packages.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-5etch2.

The stable distribution (lenny) in version 1.0.8-1lenny2 and the unstable distribution (sid) in version 1.0.10-5, have been updated to fix the weak file permissions of the log file created by older versions.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1960

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44825

File Name: debian_DSA-1960.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:acpid

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 12/19/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-4235

CWE: 264

DSA: 1960