CVE-2011-2777

MEDIUM 4.4CVE-2011-2777 · Published 29/08/2012 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2011-2777 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.4) vulnerability affecting acpid2 (tedfelix).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.61%, higher than 49.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
acpid2 tedfelix	`= 2.0.0= 2.0.1= 2.0.10= 2.0.11= 2.0.12= 2.0.13= 2.0.14= 2.0.15= 2.0.2= 2.0.3= 2.0.4= 2.0.5= 2.0.6= 2.0.7= 2.0.8= 2.0.9≤ 2.0.16`	No fix yet

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.

References

bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpid/+bug/893821

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