CVE-2011-1159
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...
- Published
- Oct 5, 2011
- Updated
- Sep 16, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Evidence observed
- Jan 19, 2011
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:PLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 63.6%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
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.
Sources
1Vasiliy Kulikov · linux · Jan 19, 2011
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