CVE-2009-0798
EPSS 8.8%acpid - denial of service
Published: 4/24/2009Modified: 4/28/2026
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 packages (2)
- Debian/acpidfrom 0, < 1.0.10-1
- Debian/acpidfrom 0, < 1.0.4-5etch1