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Ubuntu 13.10: USN-5678-1 Critical: apache2 Security Flaw

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Calendar Grey October 20, 2011
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Keep your Ubuntu installation fortified by applying the newest patches for acpid, safeguarding against possible denial of service vulnerabilities.
acpid could be made to stall under certain conditions.

Summary

acpid could be made to stall under certain conditions.

Software Description:

- acpid: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface event daemon

Details:

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that acpid did not properly handle connections

from poorly behaving clients. A local attacker could potentially exploit

this to cause a denial of service.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service moderate severity local attack ubuntu acpid

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 11.04:
  acpid                           1:2.0.7-1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 10.10:
  acpid                           1.0.10-5ubuntu4.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  acpid                           1.0.10-5ubuntu2.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1234-1

CVE-2011-1159

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October 20, 2011

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service moderate severity local attack ubuntu acpid

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpid/1:2.0.7-1ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpid/1.0.10-5ubuntu4.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpid/1.0.10-5ubuntu2.2

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