Title: Powersave Unspecified Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
Powersave provides battery, temperature, ac, and cpufreq control and monitoring.
Powersave is prone to an unspecified local privilege-escalation vulnerability. The cause of this issue is not known.
This issue can be triggered when a client sends a powersave action string to the server running on a computer where the superuser has started an X session.
It is conjectured that a successful attack may cause a complete compromise.
Powersave versions prior to stable version 0.10.15.2 and unstable version 0.11.2 are vulnerable.
Affected Products:
- Powersave Powersave 0.10.15
- Powersave Powersave 0.11.0
References:
- Powersave: Powersave Home Page
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