CVE-2009-0798 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the ACPI Event Daemon (acpid) versions prior to 1.0.10. Remote attackers can exploit this by opening numerous UNIX sockets without closing them, leading to an infinite loop, high CPU consumption, and connectivity loss. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.0.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.99.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:0.99.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.99.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:0.99.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.99.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:0.99.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:tim_hockin:acpid:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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