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Gentoo: GLSA-200905-06 Critical: acpid DoS Threat Resolution

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Calendar Grey May 24, 2009
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Malicious actors could leverage an acpid vulnerability to trigger Denial of Service on Gentoo platforms by overloading the CPU.
An error in acpid might allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200905-06 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: acpid: Denial of Service Date: May 24, 2009 Bugs: #268079 ID: 200905-06

Synopsis ======= An error in acpid might allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service.
Background ========= acpid is a daemon for the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI).
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 sys-power/acpid < 1.0.10 >= 1.0.10
========== The acpid daemon allows opening a large number of UNIX sockets without closing them, triggering an infinite loop.
Impact ===== Remote attackers can cause a Denial of Service (CPU consumption and connectivi...

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