ACPI Event Daemon (acpid) before 1.0.10 allows remote attackers to...

Vulnerability 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.

References

• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-766-1
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50060
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0474.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34838
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022182
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494443
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200905-06.xml
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34918
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7560
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34914
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35209
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01365.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34692
• http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1786
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:107
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502583
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35231
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35010
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01342.html
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9955