glsa-201310-20.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201310-20">
  <title>acpid2: Privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in acpid2 may allow a local attacker to gain
    escalated privileges.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">acpid</product>
  <announced>2013-10-28</announced>
  <revised count="1">2013-10-28</revised>
  <bug>434522</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-power/acpid" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.0.17</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.0.17</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>acpid2 is a daemon for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>acpid2 does not properly use the pidof program in powerbtn.sh. </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>A local attacker could gain escalated privileges.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All acpid2 users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-power/acpid-2.0.17"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2777">CVE-2011-2777</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2012-11-18T14:31:23Z">ackle</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2013-10-28T16:52:47Z">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>