acpid socket denial of service
| acpid-socket-dos (50060) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
acpid is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper closing of UNIX sockets. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available UNIX sockets and cause the daemon to enter into an infinite loop and hang.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 2.1 |
| Access Vector: | Local |
| Access Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
| Temporal Score: | 1.6 |
| Exploitability: | Unproven |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of acpid (1.0.10 or later), available from SourceForge.net. See References.
For other distributions:
Apply the appropriate update for your system. See References.
References:
- Red Hat Bugzilla ¿ Bug 494443 : CVE-2009-0798 acpid: too many open files DoS.
- SourceForge.net: acpid - the ACPI event daemon.
- VMSA-2010-0006: ESX Service Console updates for samba and acpid.
- ASA-2009-165: acpid security update (RHSA-2009-0474)
- BID-34692: acpid Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
- 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.
- DSA-1786: acpid -- denial of service
- GLSA-200905-06: acpid: Denial of Service
- MDVSA-2009:107: acpid
- MDVSA-2009:107-1: acpid
- RHSA-2009-0474: Moderate: acpid security update
- SA34838: acpid Socket Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability
- SA39147: VMware ESX Server 4 Update for samba and acpid
- SA39162: VMware vMA Samba and acpid Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SA39218: VMware ESX Server Samba Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SECTRACK ID: 1022182: acpid Socket Processing Bug Lets Remote Users Deny Service
- USN-766-1: acpid vulnerability
Platforms Affected:
- acpid acpid 1.0.0
- acpid acpid 1.0.1
- acpid acpid 1.0.2
- acpid acpid 1.0.3
- acpid acpid 1.0.6
- acpid acpid 1.0.8
- Canonical Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
- Canonical Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
- Canonical Ubuntu 8.10
- Debian Debian Linux 4.0
- Debian Debian Linux 5.0
- Gentoo Linux
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.0
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.0 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.1 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.1
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 3.0 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 3.0
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 4.0
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 4.0 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Multi Network Firewall 2.0
- Mandriva Linux 2009.0
- Mandriva Linux 2009.0 X86_64
- Mandriva Linux 2009.1 X86_64
- Mandriva Linux 2009.1
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 2.1 AS
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 Desktop
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 WS
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 AS
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 ES
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 Desktop
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 ES
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 WS
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 AS
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.7.z AS
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 Client
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 5
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.3.z EUS
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Long Life 5.3
- RedHat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 Itanium
- RedHat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7.z ES
- VMware vMA 4.0
Reported:
Apr 21, 2009
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