Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package acpi-support (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published24 Jul 2014
- disclosed24 Jul 2014
Introduced: 24 Jul 2014
CVE-2014-1419 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream acpi-support package and not the acpi-support package as distributed by Ubuntu.
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-1419
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2984
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-1419
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/acpi-support/%2Bbug/1340812
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60319
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2297-1