CVE-2009-0798

CVE Details

Release Date:	2009-04-24
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

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.

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

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	5.0
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
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