CVE-2011-2777

Acpid 1:2.0.10-1ubuntu2 (Ubuntu 11.04/11.10) - Boundary Crossing Privilege Escalation

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Record summary

CVE-2011-2777 has a selected CVSS score of 4.4; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.

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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Exploitation context

Available material

Catalogued exploits
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Proofs of concept

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Catalogued exploits

ExploitDBAcpid 1:2.0.10-1ubuntu2 (Ubuntu 11.04/11.10) - Boundary Crossing Privilege EscalationExploitDB exploitby otrNot analyzed1 file
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