Security Advisory

CVE-2009-0798

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-04-24 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 04:48:51
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

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.