CVE-2009-0798 Information

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.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/34838 http://secunia.com/advisories/34914 http://secunia.com/advisories/34918 http://secunia.com/advisories/35010 http://secunia.com/advisories/35209 http://secunia.com/advisories/35231 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1786 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200905-06.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:107 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0474.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34692 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022182 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-766-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494443 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502583 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50060 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A7560 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9955 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01342.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01365.html