CVE-2014-1419

Summary

CVECVE-2014-1419
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-07-24 14:55:00 UTC
Updated2017-01-07 02:59:00 UTC
DescriptionRace condition in the power policy functions in policy-funcs in acpi-support before 0.142 allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-362

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Canonical Acpi-support All All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 - lts All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 - lts All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-2297-1: acpi-support vulnerability | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com Vendor Advisory
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Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2984-1 acpi-support DEBIAN www.debian.org
Bug #1340812 “Privilege escalation vulnerability in power policy...” : Bugs : “acpi-support” package : Ubuntu CONFIRM bugs.launchpad.net
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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