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CVE 2014-1419

Race condition in the power policy functions in policy-funcs in acpi-support before 0.142 allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Related bugs and status

CVE-2014-1419 (Candidate) is related to these bugs:

Bug #1340812: Privilege escalation vulnerability in power policy functions

		In	Importance	Status
1340812	Privilege escalation vulnerability in power policy functions	acpi-support (Ubuntu)	High	Fix Released
1340812	Privilege escalation vulnerability in power policy functions	acpi-support (Ubuntu Precise)	High	Fix Released
1340812	Privilege escalation vulnerability in power policy functions	acpi-support (Ubuntu Utopic)	High	Fix Released
1340812	Privilege escalation vulnerability in power policy functions	acpi-support (Ubuntu Trusty)	High	Fix Released
1340812	Privilege escalation vulnerability in power policy functions	acpi-support (Ubuntu Saucy)	High	Fix Released

See the

CVE page on Mitre.org for more details.

References

CONFIRM: https://bugs.launchpad...
UBUNTU: USN-2297-1
DEBIAN: DSA-2984
SECUNIA: 60319