Security Advisory

CVE-2011-2777

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-08-29 22:00:00

Last updated 2024-09-17 04:18:48

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

samples/powerbtn/powerbtn.sh in acpid (aka acpid2) 2.0.16 and earlier uses the pidof program incorrectly, which allows local users to gain privileges by running a program with the name kded4 and a DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable containing commands.

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