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Debian DSA-2984-1 : acpi-support - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 76717

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Synopsis

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

Description

CESG discovered a root escalation flaw in the acpi-support package. An unprivileged user can inject the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable to run arbitrary commands as root user via the policy-funcs script.

Solution

Upgrade the acpi-support packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.140-5+deb7u1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/acpi-support

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2984

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 76717

File Name: debian_DSA-2984.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/24/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:acpi-support, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/22/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1419

BID: 68827

DSA: 2984