Description
acpid.c in acpid before 2.0.9 does not properly handle a situation in which a process has connected to acpid.socket but is not reading any data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (daemon hang) via a crafted application that performs a connect system call but no read system calls.
Published: 2011-10-05
Score: 2.1 Low
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2362-1 acpid security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2011-1169 acpid.c in acpid before 2.0.9 does not properly handle a situation in which a process has connected to acpid.socket but is not reading any data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (daemon hang) via a crafted application that performs a connect system call but no read system calls.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1234-1 acpid vulnerability
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T20:57:51.942Z

Reserved: 2011-03-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2011-1159

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-10-05T02:56:24.660

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2011-1159

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2011-01-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2011-1159 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses