Denial of Service Vulnerability in acpid.c

CVE-2011-1159 · LOW Severity

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

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.

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