Bug 760984 (CVE-2011-4578)
Summary: | CVE-2011-4578 acpid: Unsafe umask for actions executed by acpid | ||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov> |
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | aglotov, ted |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2021-06-11 21:04:29 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Bug Blocks: | 761099 |
Description
Jan Lieskovsky
2011-12-07 14:26:36 UTC
This issue affects the versions of the acpid package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6. -- This issue did NOT affect the versions of the acpid package, as shipped with Fedora release of 15 and 16. The acpid package version in those releases have been updated to upstream acpid-2.0.13 version. Relevant upstream patch (related difference between v2.0.10 and v2.0.11 tarballs): diff -uprs acpid-2.0.10/event.c acpid-2.0.11/event.c --- acpid-2.0.10/event.c 2011-03-12 17:18:09.000000000 +0100 +++ acpid-2.0.11/event.c 2011-06-23 18:35:19.000000000 +0200 @@ -641,6 +641,7 @@ do_cmd_rule(struct rule *rule, const cha if (acpid_debug && logevents) { fprintf(stdout, "BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES\n"); } + umask(0077); execl("/bin/sh", "/bin/sh", "-c", action, NULL); /* should not get here */ acpid_log(LOG_ERR, "execl(): %s", strerror(errno)); This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s): https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-4578 |