Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package acpi-support  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-ACPISUPPORT-632785
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed22 Sept 2014

Introduced: 22 Sep 2014

CVE-2014-0484  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (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.

The Debian acpi-support package before 0.140-5+deb7u3 allows local users to gain privileges via vectors related to the "user's environment."