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             AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

                               ESB-2009.1664
               New acpid packages fix weak file permissions
                             21 December 2009

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:           acpid
Publisher:         Debian
Operating System:  Debian GNU/Linux 4
                   Debian GNU/Linux 5
                   UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Impact/Access:     Access Privileged Data -- Remote with User Interaction
                   Denial of Service      -- Remote with User Interaction
Resolution:        Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names:         CVE-2009-4235  

Original Bulletin: 
   http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1960

Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on 
         platforms other than Debian. It is recommended that administrators 
         running acpid check for an updated version of the software for their
         operating system.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1960-1                  security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                      Raphael Geissert
December 19, 2009                     http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : acpid
Vulnerability  : programming error
Problem type   : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id         : CVE-2009-4235

It was discovered that acpid, the Advanced Configuration and Power
Interface event daemon, on the oldstable distribution (etch) creates
its log file with weak permissions, which might expose sensible
information or might be abused by a local user to consume all free disk
space on the same partition of the file.


For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.4-5etch2.

The stable distribution (lenny) in version 1.0.8-1lenny2 and the
unstable distribution (sid) in version 1.0.10-5, have been updated to
fix the weak file permissions of the log file created by older
versions.


We recommend that you upgrade your acpid packages.


Upgrade instructions
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wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
        will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
        will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
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Debian (oldstable)
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Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.4-5etch2.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:    12642 576b3f99b475f0e984714d2dba996206
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.4.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:    23416 3aff94e92186e99ed5fd6dcee2db7c74
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.4-5etch2.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum:      624 3b758a4454f405522ba8ee5b73e3a22b

amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.4-5etch2_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    27162 b945487fde2ab7450bcd8feb0594838d

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.4-5etch2_i386.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    25530 8ccef2fa763433abf0f6273e54803254

ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.4-5etch2_ia64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    33764 1403c833448f94d9cfda9e3d065ad6e3


Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny
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Debian (stable)
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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.8-1lenny2.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:    18805 5939243de9ac3c4199ab0b40ecdf4406
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.8-1lenny2.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum:     1290 91e92e7e0e45e556bdf32b46193f3d29
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.8.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:    25308 ee48ff966292ec517ba83b37dd0a3256

amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.8-1lenny2_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    38026 dc5bf0d06eab4173ff4372d2e4204333

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.8-1lenny2_i386.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    38026 37ff1d2999cccef9e4e88478be7043f4

ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.8-1lenny2_ia64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    42950 3c751d888490df8bcf726f2faf7d15c5


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next update.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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