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CentOS Update for acpid CESA-2009:0474 centos5 i386
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update for the 'acpid' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Insight
Insight
acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) events to user-space programs. Anthony de Almeida Lopes of Outpost24 AB reported a denial of service flaw in the acpid daemon's error handling. If an attacker could exhaust the sockets open to acpid, the daemon would enter an infinite loop, consuming most CPU resources and preventing acpid from communicating with legitimate processes. (CVE-2009-0798) Users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.
Affected Software
Affected Software
acpid on CentOS 5
Solution
Solution
Please install the updated packages.