Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 8, 2009· Updated Apr 23, 2026
CVE-2009-4033
CVE-2009-4033
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 products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
8- securitytracker.com/idnvd
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisoriesnvd
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1642.htmlnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/37249nvd
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvd
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54677nvd
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10555nvd
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