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CVE-2009-0798 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494443	CVE	Patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502583	CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/34838	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/34914	CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/34918	CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/35010	CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/35209	CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/35231	CVE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50060	CVE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7560	CVE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9955	CVE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01342.html	CVE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01365.html	CVE
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1786	CVE
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200905-06.xml	CVE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:107	CVE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0474.html	CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34692	CVE
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022182	CVE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-766-1	CVE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494443	[email protected]	Patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502583	[email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/34838	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/34914	[email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/34918	[email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/35010	[email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/35209	[email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/35231	[email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50060	[email protected]
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7560	[email protected]
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9955	[email protected]
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01342.html	[email protected]
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01365.html	[email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1786	[email protected]
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200905-06.xml	[email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:107	[email protected]
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0474.html	[email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34692	[email protected]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022182	[email protected]
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-766-1	[email protected]

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-399	Resource Management Errors	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
tim hockin acpid	<= 1.0.8 0.99.0 0.99.1 0.99.4 1.0.0
CPE cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:::::::: cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:0.99.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:0.99.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:0.99.4:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.3:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.4:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.6:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:20010510:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Product

Versions

tim hockin acpid

<= 1.0.8

0.99.0

0.99.1

0.99.4

1.0.0

CPE

cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:0.99.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:0.99.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:0.99.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:20010510:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

No remediation found in references.

Change History

7 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 23, 2026	Status Change	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Sep 29, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Aug 17, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 27, 2009	Initial Analysis	[email protected]