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CVE-2009-4033 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515062	CVE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542926	CVE
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023284	CVE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54677	CVE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10555	CVE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:342	CVE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1642.html	CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37249	CVE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515062	[email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542926	[email protected]
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023284	[email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54677	[email protected]
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10555	[email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:342	[email protected]
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1642.html	[email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37249	[email protected]

see all 16 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-264	Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
tim hockin acpid	1.0.4
CPE cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.4:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

7 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 23, 2026	Status Change	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Sep 19, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Aug 17, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Dec 9, 2009	Initial Analysis	[email protected]