CVE-2009-0798
Acpi Event Daemon (acpid) Denial of Service Vulnerability
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.
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Published Date :
April 24, 2009, 3:30 p.m.
Last Modified :
April 9, 2025, 12:30 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
2.9
Exploitability Score :
10.0
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/34838 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/34914 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/34918 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/35010 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/35209 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/35231 Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1786 Added Reference http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200905-06.xml Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:107 Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0474.html Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34692 Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022182 Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-766-1 Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494443 Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502583 Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50060 Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7560 Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9955 Added Reference https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01342.html Added Reference https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01365.html -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
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CVE Modified by [email protected]
Sep. 29, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7560 [No Types Assigned] Removed Reference http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9955 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9955 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7560 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 17, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/50060 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50060 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Apr. 27, 2009
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2009-0798 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2009-0798
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
8.80 }} -6.64%
score
0.91703
percentile