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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : acpid vulnerability (USN-1234-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 56581

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that acpid did not properly handle connections from poorly behaving clients. A local attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service.

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Solution

Update the affected acpid package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1234-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 56581

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1234-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/21/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:acpid

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/20/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/4/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1159

BID: 45915

USN: 1234-1