CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-0798

Published: Apr 24, 2009 | Modified: Sep 29, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
2.1 MODERATE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW

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 Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Acpid Tim_hockin * 1.0.8 (including)
Acpid Tim_hockin 0.99.0 (including) 0.99.0 (including)
Acpid Tim_hockin 0.99.1 (including) 0.99.1 (including)
Acpid Tim_hockin 0.99.4 (including) 0.99.4 (including)
Acpid Tim_hockin 1.0.0 (including) 1.0.0 (including)
Acpid Tim_hockin 1.0.1 (including) 1.0.1 (including)
Acpid Tim_hockin 1.0.2 (including) 1.0.2 (including)
Acpid Tim_hockin 1.0.3 (including) 1.0.3 (including)
Acpid Tim_hockin 1.0.4 (including) 1.0.4 (including)
Acpid Tim_hockin 1.0.6 (including) 1.0.6 (including)
Acpid Tim_hockin 20010510 (including) 20010510 (including)
Acpid Ubuntu dapper *
Acpid Ubuntu devel *
Acpid Ubuntu gutsy *
Acpid Ubuntu hardy *
Acpid Ubuntu intrepid *
Acpid Ubuntu jaunty *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 RedHat acpid-0:1.0.1-3 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 RedHat acpid-0:1.0.2-4 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat acpid-0:1.0.3-2.el4_7.1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat acpid-0:1.0.4-7.el5_3.1 *

References