CVE-2009-0798
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 2.3%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 2.3% (83th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-0796)
- Published
- April 24, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-0796 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- tim hockin / acpid
- tim hockin / acpid
- tim hockin / acpid
- tim hockin / acpid
- tim hockin / acpid
- tim hockin / acpid
- tim hockin / acpid
- tim hockin / acpid
- tim hockin / acpid
- tim hockin / acpid
- tim hockin / acpid
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34838(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34914
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34918
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35010
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35209
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35231
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1786
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200905-06.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:107
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0474.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34692
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022182
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-766-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494443(Patch)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502583
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50060
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7560
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9955
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01342.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01365.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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