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CVE-2009-0798

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
24/04/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.0.8 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:0.99.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:0.99.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:0.99.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:20010510:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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