Vulnerability CVE-2011-1159
Published: 2011-10-04   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
acpid.c in acpid before 2.0.9 does not properly handle a situation in which a process has connected to acpid.socket but is not reading any data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (daemon hang) via a crafted application that performs a connect system call but no read system calls.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Tedfelix -> Acpid 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688698
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/12
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/19/4
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060053.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059880.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45915
http://secunia.com/advisories/44621
http://secunia.com/advisories/42947
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