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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.69690
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 14 FEDORA-2011-6460 (acpid)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing an update to acpid
announced via advisory FEDORA-2011-6460.

acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI events to user-space programs.

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #688698 - CVE-2011-1159 acpid: blocked writes can lead to acpid daemon hang
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688698

Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.

This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update acpid' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum,
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2011-6460

Risk factor : High

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-1159
BugTraq ID: 45915
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45915
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060053.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059880.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/19/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/12
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/7
http://secunia.com/advisories/42947
http://secunia.com/advisories/44621
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