CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-0798

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2009-04-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-04-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-399

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.

Affected configurations

• tim hockin acpid (<= 1.0.8) • tim hockin acpid 0.99.0 • tim hockin acpid 0.99.1 • tim hockin acpid 0.99.4 • tim hockin acpid 1.0.0 • tim hockin acpid 1.0.1 • tim hockin acpid 1.0.2 • tim hockin acpid 1.0.3 • tim hockin acpid 1.0.4 • tim hockin acpid 1.0.6 • tim hockin acpid 20010510

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References