CVE-2011-1159

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-10-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

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.

Affected products

Tedfelix Acpid: through 2.0.8; 1.0.8, 1.0.10, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3 (+4)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059880.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060053.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42947
http://secunia.com/advisories/44621
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/19/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/12
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/7
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45915
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688698
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059880.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060053.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42947

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