During a review for EDF, Raphael Geissert discovered that the acpi-support package did not properly handle data obtained from a user's environment. This could lead to program malfunction or allow a local user to escalate privileges to the root user due to a programming error.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.140-5+deb7u3. For the testing distribution (jessie), and the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your acpi-support packages.

This package contains scripts to react to various ACPI events. It only includes scripts for events that can be supported with some level of safety cross platform.

acpi-support on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3020.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25