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USN-1234-1: acpid vulnerability

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USN-1234-1: acpid vulnerability

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/04/2011
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-acpid

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