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CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2011-4578

Published: Aug 29, 2012 | Modified: Apr 11, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
3.6 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4578
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

event.c in acpid (aka acpid2) before 2.0.11 does not have an appropriate umask setting during execution of event-handler scripts, which might allow local users to (1) perform write operations within directories created by a script, or (2) read files created by a script, via standard filesystem system calls.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Acpid2Tedfelix*2.0.10 (including)
Acpid2Tedfelix2.0.0 (including)2.0.0 (including)
Acpid2Tedfelix2.0.1 (including)2.0.1 (including)
Acpid2Tedfelix2.0.2 (including)2.0.2 (including)
Acpid2Tedfelix2.0.3 (including)2.0.3 (including)
Acpid2Tedfelix2.0.4 (including)2.0.4 (including)
Acpid2Tedfelix2.0.5 (including)2.0.5 (including)
Acpid2Tedfelix2.0.6 (including)2.0.6 (including)
Acpid2Tedfelix2.0.7 (including)2.0.7 (including)
Acpid2Tedfelix2.0.8 (including)2.0.8 (including)
Acpid2Tedfelix2.0.9 (including)2.0.9 (including)
AcpidUbuntudevel*
AcpidUbuntuhardy*
AcpidUbuntulucid*
AcpidUbuntumaverick*
AcpidUbuntunatty*
AcpidUbuntuoneiric*

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