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Debian DSA-1786-1 : acpid - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 38667

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that acpid, a daemon for delivering ACPI events, is prone to a denial of service attack by opening a large number of UNIX sockets, which are not closed properly.

Solution

Upgrade the acpid packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.8-1lenny1.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-5etch1.

See Also

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 38667

File Name: debian_DSA-1786.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/4/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:acpid, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/2/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0798

BID: 34692

CWE: 399

DSA: 1786