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.

Score
CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium
Status
Modified - secalert@redhat.com
Published
2009-04-24
Last modified
2024-08-07
Weaknesses
CWE-399

Affected products

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