CVE-2009-0798

CVE-2009-0798 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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