Vulnerability Bulletins

DSA-2984 acpi-support - security update

   
Affected software Debian
 
CESG discovered a root escalation flaw in the acpi-support package. Anunprivileged user can inject the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environmentvariable to run arbitrary commands as root user via the policy-funcsscript.

More info:

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2984