CVE-2009-4033

Name	CVE-2009-4033
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
acpid (PTS)	jessie	1:2.0.23-2	fixed
	stretch	1:2.0.28-1	fixed
	buster	1:2.0.31-1	fixed
	bullseye	1:2.0.32-1	fixed
	bookworm	1:2.0.33-2	fixed
	sid, trixie	1:2.0.34-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
acpid	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

- acpid <not-affected> (problem in redhat-specific patch; debian uses sensible permissions 0664)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515062