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CVE-2014-1419

Publication date 22 July 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

High

Why this priority?

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
acpi-support 14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
13.10 saucy
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 0.140.2
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

policy-funcs was dropped in acpi-support 0.142

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-2297-1
    • acpi-support vulnerability
    • 22 July 2014

Other references