Vulnerability Bulletins

DSA-3020 acpi-support - security update

   
Affected software Debian
 
During a review for EDF, Raphael Geissert discovered that theacpi-support package did not properly handle data obtained from ausers environment. This could lead to program malfunction or allow alocal user to escalate privileges to the root user due to a programmingerror.

More info:

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3020