CVE-2009-0798

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.

🔗 References (40)

• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/34838
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/34914
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/34918
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/35010
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/35209
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/35231
• secalert@redhathttp://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1786
• secalert@redhathttp://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200905-06.xml
• secalert@redhathttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:107
• secalert@redhathttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0474.html
• secalert@redhathttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34692
• secalert@redhathttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022182
• secalert@redhathttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-766-1
• secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494443
• secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502583