CVE-2011-1159 (GCVE-0-2011-1159)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-10-05 01:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 20:57
VLAI
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1042 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/42947 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/19/4 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/0… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
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