CVE-2009-0798
N/A
Published: April 24, 2009 at 03:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:05 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorAcpid
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (20)
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/34838Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1786Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200905-06.xmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-399
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