Vulnerability CVE-2009-0798
Published: 2009-04-24   Modified: 2012-02-13

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.

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Tim hockin -> Acpid 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494443
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01365.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01342.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502583
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/50060
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-766-1
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022182
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34692
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0474.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:107
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200905-06.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1786
http://secunia.com/advisories/35231
http://secunia.com/advisories/35209
http://secunia.com/advisories/35010
http://secunia.com/advisories/34918
http://secunia.com/advisories/34914
http://secunia.com/advisories/34838
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9955
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7560
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