CVE-2011-2777

Severity

44%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

106%

samples/powerbtn/powerbtn.sh in acpid (aka acpid2) 2.0.16 and earlier uses the pidof program incorrectly, which allows local users to gain privileges by running a program with the name kded4 and a DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable containing commands.

samples/powerbtn/powerbtn.sh in acpid (aka acpid2) 2.0.16 and earlier uses the pidof program incorrectly, which allows local users to gain privileges by running a program with the name kded4 and a DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable containing commands.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.4. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

tedfelix acpid (aka acpid2)

First reported 12 years ago

2012-08-29 22:55:00

Last updated 12 years ago

2012-12-20 05:00:00

Affected Software

tedfelix acpid (aka acpid2) 2.0.0

2.0.0

tedfelix acpid (aka acpid2) 2.0.1

2.0.1

tedfelix acpid (aka acpid2) 2.0.2

2.0.2

tedfelix acpid (aka acpid2) 2.0.3

2.0.3

tedfelix acpid (aka acpid2) 2.0.4

2.0.4

tedfelix acpid (aka acpid2) 2.0.5

2.0.5

tedfelix acpid (aka acpid2) 2.0.6

2.0.6

tedfelix acpid (aka acpid2) 2.0.7

2.0.7

tedfelix acpid (aka acpid2) 2.0.8

2.0.8

tedfelix acpid (aka acpid2) 2.0.9

2.0.9

tedfelix acpid (aka acpid2) 2.0.10

2.0.10

tedfelix acpid (aka acpid2) 2.0.11

2.0.11

tedfelix acpid (aka acpid2) 2.0.12

2.0.12

tedfelix acpid (aka acpid2) 2.0.13

2.0.13

tedfelix acpid (aka acpid2) 2.0.14

2.0.14

tedfelix acpid (aka acpid2) 2.0.15

2.0.15

References

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpid/+bug/893821

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