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,
02 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,
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.31% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 82.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2009-04-24 15:00Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 04:48Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2009-03-04
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- e648de672e16adbfb157f695dc6535677066eb884fc5cf2435e07ae95b1641bc
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-766-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-766-1
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comacpid-socket-dos(50060)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50060
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2009:0474http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0474.html
- secunia.com34838http://secunia.com/advisories/34838
- www.securitytracker.com1022182http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022182
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494443
- www.gentoo.orgGLSA-200905-06http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200905-06.xml
- secunia.com34918http://secunia.com/advisories/34918
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:7560https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7560
- secunia.com34914http://secunia.com/advisories/34914
- secunia.com35209http://secunia.com/advisories/35209
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2009-5608https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01365.html
- www.securityfocus.com34692http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34692
- www.debian.orgDSA-1786http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1786
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2009:107http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:107
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502583
- secunia.com35231http://secunia.com/advisories/35231
- secunia.com35010http://secunia.com/advisories/35010
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2009-5578https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01342.html
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:9955https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9955
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- acpid Fixed in 1.0.10-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- acpid Fixed in 1.0.10-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- acpid Fixed in 1.0.10-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.