CVE-2009-0798

Description

ACPI Event Daemon (acpid) before 1.0.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and connectivity loss) by opening a large number of UNIX sockets without closing them, which triggers an infinite loop.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01365.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01342.html

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9955

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7560

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50060

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502583

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494443

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-766-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022182

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34692

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0474.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:107

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200905-06.xml

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1786

http://secunia.com/advisories/35231

http://secunia.com/advisories/35209

http://secunia.com/advisories/35010

http://secunia.com/advisories/34918

http://secunia.com/advisories/34914

http://secunia.com/advisories/34838

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3