Synopsis: Important: acpid security update Issue date: 2009-12-07 CVE Names: CVE-2009-4033 CVE-2009-4033 acpid: log file created with random permissions It was discovered that acpid could create its log file ("/var/log/acpid") with random permissions on some systems. A local attacker could use this flaw to escalate their privileges if the log file was created as world-writable and with the setuid or setgid bit set. (CVE-2009-4033) Please note that this flaw was due to a specific patch (acpid-1.0.4-fd.patch) included in the Scientific Linux 5 acpid package. SL 5.x SRPMS: acpid-1.0.4-9.el5_4.1.src.rpm i386: acpid-1.0.4-9.el5_4.1.i386.rpm x86_64: acpid-1.0.4-9.el5_4.1.x86_64.rpm -Connie Sieh -Troy Dawson