CVE-2011-1159
LOW · CVSS 2.1EPSS 1.1%EU EUVD
acpid.c in acpid before 2.0.9 does not properly handle a situation in which a process has connected to acpid.socket but is not reading any data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (daemon hang) via a crafted application that performs a connect system call but no read system calls.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 2.1 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 1.1% (66th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-1169)
- Published
- October 5, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-1169 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on September 16, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- tedfelix / acpid
- tedfelix / acpid
- tedfelix / acpid
- tedfelix / acpid
- tedfelix / acpid
- tedfelix / acpid
- tedfelix / acpid
- tedfelix / acpid
- tedfelix / acpid
- tedfelix / acpid
- tedfelix / acpid
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059880.html(Patch)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060053.html(Patch)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42947(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44621(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/19/4(Exploit, Patch)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/12(Exploit, Patch)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/7(Exploit, Patch)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45915
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688698(Patch)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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