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CVE-2009-0798

CVE information

Published

14 years ago

Last Modified

6 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
5/10
Exploit Score
10/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:0.99.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:0.99.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:0.99.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:20010510:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -

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