ACPID Insecure Umask Directory Permissions Vulnerability

BID:11739

Info

ACPID Insecure Umask Directory Permissions Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 11739
Class: Configuration Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Nov 17 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Nov 17 2004 12:00AM
Credit: This issue was announced in a SuSE advisory.
Vulnerable: ACPID ACPID 1.0.3
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2
ACPID ACPID 1.0.1
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0 x86_64
 + S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 8.2
+ SuSE Linux 8.1
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

ACPID Insecure Umask Directory Permissions Vulnerability

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. 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.

Exploit / POC

ACPID Insecure Umask Directory Permissions Vulnerability

There is no exploit required.

Solution / Fix

ACPID Insecure Umask Directory Permissions Vulnerability

Solution:
SuSE has released a security summary report (SUSE-SR:2004:001) to
address these and other issues. The report indicates that fixes for these
issues are available on the SuSE FTP server and also through the YaST
Online Update utility. Customers are advised to peruse the referenced
advisory for further details regarding obtaining and applying appropriate
fixes.


ACPID ACPID 1.0.1

ACPID ACPID 1.0.3

References

ACPID Insecure Umask Directory Permissions Vulnerability

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