An acpi-support security update has been released for Debian
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2984-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Luciano Bello
July 22, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : acpi-support
CVE ID : CVE-2014-1419
CESG discovered a root escalation flaw in the acpi-support package. An
unprivileged user can inject the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment
variable to run arbitrary commands as root user via the policy-funcs
script.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.140-5+deb7u1.
For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.142-2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.142-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your acpi-support packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/
