TITLE:
Powersave Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18651

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CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Powersave 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/7280/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Powersave, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the daemon within the
handling of a powersave action string sent by a client. This can be
exploited by local users to gain escalated privileges.

Successful exploitation requires that the root user has started a
X-session on the affected system.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerability has been fixed in stable version 0.10.15.2, and in
unstable version 0.11.2 and later.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=124576&package_id=162525

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

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