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MGASA-2012-0215

Date: August 12th, 2012
Affected releases: 1


Description:
Updated acpid package fixes security vulnerabilities:

Oliver-Tobias Ripka discovered that an ACPI script incorrectly handled
power button events. A local attacker could use this to execute
arbitrary code, and possibly escalate privileges. The script is
installed as /usr/share/doc/acpid/samples/powerbtn/powerbtn.sh, so this
only affects systems where this has been added to the acpi configuration
(CVE-2011-2777).

Helmut Grohne and Michael Biebl discovered that ACPI scripts were
executed with a permissive file mode creation mask (umask). A local
attacker could read files and modify directories created by ACPI
scripts that did not set a strict umask (CVE-2011-4578).


Updated Packages:
acpid-2.0.9-1.1.mga1


References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2777
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4578
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7003