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CVE-2009-0798 Detail

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.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  04/24/2009

Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.0 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Partial
Additional Information:
Allows disruption of service

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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Hyperlink Resource
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1786
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200905-06.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:107
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0474.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34692
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022182
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-766-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494443 Patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502583
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50060
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7560
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9955
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01342.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01365.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7560
Check System:
http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Hyperlink:
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7560
Identifier:
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9955
Check System:
http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Hyperlink:
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9955

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

  • Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)

Change History

3 change records found - show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-0798
NVD Published Date:
04/24/2009
NVD Last Modified:
09/28/2017