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.
Published: 2009-04-24
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 8.8% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1786-1 New acpid packages fix denial of service
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-0796 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-766-1 acpid vulnerability
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Redhat Enterprise Linux
Tim Hockin Acpid
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T04:48:51.991Z

Reserved: 2009-03-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-0798

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-04-24T15:30:00.250

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-0798

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-0798 - Bugzilla

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