CVE-2009-0798

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-04-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

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.

Affected products

Tim Hockin Acpid: through 1.0.8; 0.99.0, 0.99.1, 0.99.4, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 (+4)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/34838
http://secunia.com/advisories/34914
http://secunia.com/advisories/34918
http://secunia.com/advisories/35010
http://secunia.com/advisories/35209
http://secunia.com/advisories/35231
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1786
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200905-06.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:107
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0474.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34692
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022182

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