Published: 24/07/2014 Updated: 07/01/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.9 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.4

VMScore: 614

Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Race condition in the power policy functions in policy-funcs in acpi-support prior to 0.142 allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

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canonical ubuntu linux 12.04

The system could be made to run programs as an administrator ...

CESG discovered a root escalation flaw in the acpi-support package An unprivileged user can inject the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable to run arbitrary commands as root user via the policy-funcs script For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0140-5+deb7u1 For the testing distribution (jessie), ...

CWE-362 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/acpi-support/%2Bbug/1340812 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2297-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2984 http://secunia.com/advisories/60319 https://usn.ubuntu.com/2297-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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