CentOS 3 / 4 / 5 : acpid (CESA-2009:0474)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 38903

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated acpid package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) events to user-space programs.

Anthony de Almeida Lopes of Outpost24 AB reported a denial of service flaw in the acpid daemon's error handling. If an attacker could exhaust the sockets open to acpid, the daemon would enter an infinite loop, consuming most CPU resources and preventing acpid from communicating with legitimate processes. (CVE-2009-0798)

Users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected acpid package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 38903

File Name: centos_RHSA-2009-0474.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 5/26/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment 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:centos:centos:acpid, cpe:/o:centos:centos:3, cpe:/o:centos:centos:4, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/19/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/24/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0798

BID: 34692

CWE: 399

RHSA: 2009:0474

Detections

Analytics