Vulnerability in Tim Hockin Acpid

CVE-2009-0798

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.

EPSS: 0.023 (81.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References