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.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acpid | Tim_hockin | 1.0.4 (including) | 1.0.4 (including) |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | RedHat | acpid-0:1.0.4-9.el5_4.1 | * |
| Acpid | Ubuntu | dapper | * |