CVE-2009-0798

NameCVE-2009-0798
DescriptionACPI 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-1786-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
acpid (PTS)bullseye1:2.0.32-1fixed
bookworm1:2.0.33-2fixed
trixie, sid1:2.0.34-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
acpidsourceetch1.0.4-5etch1DSA-1786-1
acpidsourcelenny1.0.8-1lenny1DSA-1786-1
acpidsource(unstable)1.0.10-1medium

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