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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Canonical acpi-support 0.141. Affected is an unknown function of the component Privileges. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-362. The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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

The weakness was shared 07/24/2014 with CESG (Website). The advisory is available at bugs.launchpad.net. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2014-1419 since 01/13/2014. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 76707 (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : acpi-support vulnerability (USN-2297-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Ubuntu Local Security Checks.

Upgrading to version 0.141 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (94801) and Tenable (76707).

Productinfo

Vendor

• Canonical

Name

• acpi-support

Version

• 0.141

License

• open-source

CPE 2.3info

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CPE 2.2info

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CVSSv4info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 9.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.9

VulDB Base Score: 9.3
VulDB Temp Score: 8.9
VulDB Vector: 🔍
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Race condition
CWE: CWE-362
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: Yes
Remote: No

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 76707
Nessus Name: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : acpi-support vulnerability (USN-2297-1)
Nessus File: 🔍
Nessus Risk: 🔍
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OpenVAS ID: 702984
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 2984-1 (acpi-support - security update)
OpenVAS File: 🔍
OpenVAS Family: 🔍

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Interest: 🔍
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
Status: 🔍

0-Day Time: 🔍

Upgrade: acpi-support 0.141

Timelineinfo

01/13/2014 🔍
07/22/2014 +190 days 🔍
07/22/2014 +0 days 🔍
07/23/2014 +1 days 🔍
07/24/2014 +1 days 🔍
07/24/2014 +0 days 🔍
07/25/2014 +1 days 🔍
07/28/2014 +3 days 🔍
03/26/2015 +241 days 🔍
03/26/2022 +2557 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: USN-2297-1
Organization: CESG
Status: Not defined
Confirmation: 🔍

CVE: CVE-2014-1419 (🔍)
OVAL: 🔍

X-Force: 94801
Vulnerability Center: 45630 - Canonical Acpi-support <0.140.2 Local Privilege Escalation via Unspecified Vectors, Medium
SecurityFocus: 68827 - acpi-support CVE-2014-1419 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia: 60319 - Ubuntu update for acpi-support, Less Critical
OSVDB: 109458

Entryinfo

Created: 03/26/2015 12:07
Updated: 03/26/2022 08:54
Changes: 03/26/2015 12:07 (69), 06/03/2017 07:34 (8), 03/26/2022 08:51 (3), 03/26/2022 08:54 (1)
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