CVE-2009-0798 (GCVE-0-2009-0798)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-04-24 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 04:48
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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Date Public
2009-04-21 00:00
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