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Fedora 9 - FEDORA-2009-5608 Critical: acpid DoS Issue Resolved

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Calendar Grey May 28, 2009
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Fedora 10 acpid upgrade addresses a DoS vulnerability by rectifying CVE-2009-0799 to improve overall system reliability.
Fixed CVE-2009-0798 (too many open files DoS)

Summary

acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI events to user-space programs.

Update Information:

Fixed CVE-2009-0798 (too many open files DoS)

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security advisory security update critical Fedora DoS acpid

Change Log

* Wed May 27 2009 Zdenek Prikryl - 1.0.6-8 - Fixed CVE-2009-0798 (too many open files DoS) (#502583)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #502583 - CVE-2009-0798 acpid: too many open files DoS https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502583

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update acpid' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: acpid
Product: Fedora 9
Version: 1.0.6
Release: 8.fc9
URL: https://acpid.sourceforge.net/
Summary: ACPI Event Daemon

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