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CVE-2009-0798

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2009-04-24 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Tim Hockin Acpid

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References