Title: ACPID Insecure Umask Directory Permissions Vulnerability
Severity: LOW
Description:
ACPID is a daemon for handling ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) events. It is available for UNIX and Linux platforms.
A vulnerability exists in ACPID that may result in a directory being created with world-writable permissions. This is reportedly due to an insecure umask being set. This could expose software to attacks by local users, depending on the contents and purpose of the directory that is created by the software. The vulnerability could reportedly result in a denial of service attacks.
This issue was reported in a SuSE advisory. It is not known if it affects versions of ACPID running on other operating systems or if it is a configuration error specific to the SuSE Linux distribution.
Affected Products:
- ACPID ACPID 1.0.1
- ACPID ACPID 1.0.3
- S.u.S.E. Linux 8.1.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 8.2.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0.0 x86_64
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2.0
References:
- ACPID: ACPID Homepage
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