During a review for EDF, Raphael Geissert discovered that the acpi-support package did not properly handle data obtained from a user's environment. This could lead to program malfunction or allow a local user to escalate privileges to the root user due to a programming error. For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.140-5+deb7u3. For the testing distribution (jessie), and the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your acpi-support packages.
During a review for EDF, Raphael Geissert discovered that the acpi-support package did not properly handle data obtained from a user's environment. This could lead to program malfunction or allow a local user to escalate privileges to the root user due to a programming error.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.140-5+deb7u3.
For the testing distribution (jessie), and the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your acpi-support packages.
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