Security Information / 2014 / Security Information -- DSA-2984-1 acpi-support

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2984-1 acpi-support -- security update

Date Reported:

22 Jul 2014

Affected Packages:

acpi-support

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-1419.

More information:

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 0.140-5+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.142-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.142-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your acpi-support packages.