CVE-2014-1419: Canonical Acpi-Support

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Acpi-Support: up to and including 0.141
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only

Published 2014-07-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.