* SECURITY UPDATE: Arbitrary code execution in the power button handling
script (LP: #893821)
- debian/powerbtn.sh: Ensure that the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment
variable is only read from a process owned by the user that will be
evaluating the variable.
- CVE-2011-2777
* SECURITY UPDATE: Unprivileged users may be able to write to directories
and read files created by event handler scripts
- event.c: Set a restrictive umask of 0077 before running an event handler
script. Based on upstream patch.
- CVE-2011-4578
-- Tyler Hicks <email address hidden> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:33:35 -0600
This bug was fixed in the package acpid - 1:2.0.10-1ubuntu3
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acpid (1:2.0.10-1ubuntu3) precise; urgency=low
* SECURITY UPDATE: Arbitrary code execution in the power button handling BUS_ADDRESS environment
script (LP: #893821)
- debian/powerbtn.sh: Ensure that the DBUS_SESSION_
variable is only read from a process owned by the user that will be
evaluating the variable.
- CVE-2011-2777
* SECURITY UPDATE: Unprivileged users may be able to write to directories
and read files created by event handler scripts
- event.c: Set a restrictive umask of 0077 before running an event handler
script. Based on upstream patch.
- CVE-2011-4578
-- Tyler Hicks <email address hidden> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:33:35 -0600