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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 …

Impact

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 products

VendorProductAffected versions
Tim HockinAcpid
through 1.0.8
Versions 0.99.0, 0.99.1, 0.99.4, 1.0.0, 1.0.1

Weakness classification

References