CVE-2009-0798

CVE Details

Release Date:

2009-04-24

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.

See more information about CVE-2009-0798 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	5	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (acpid)	ELSA-2009-0474	2009-05-07
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (acpid)	ELSA-2009-0474	2009-05-07
Oracle Linux version 5 (acpid)	ELSA-2009-0474	2009-05-07

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