Fedora 10 : acpid-1.0.6-11.fc10 (2009-5578)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 38941

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixed CVE-2009-0798 (too many open files DoS)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected acpid package.

See Also

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?82f162c3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 38941

File Name: fedora_2009-5578.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/28/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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:fedoraproject:fedora:acpid, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/28/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0798

BID: 34692

CWE: 399

FEDORA: 2009-5578