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CVE-2009-0798
ACPI Event Daemon (acpid) before 1.0.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and connectivity loss) by…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.3%
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- redhat
Description
ACPI Event Daemon (acpid) before 1.0.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and connectivity loss) by opening a large number of UNIX sockets without closing them, which triggers an infinite loop.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.3% · top 17% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (20)
- USN-766-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- acpid-socket-dos(50060) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- RHSA-2009:0474 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 34838 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1022182 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494443 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-200905-06 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 34918 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7560 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 34914 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 35209 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-5608 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 34692 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- DSA-1786 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- MDVSA-2009:107 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502583 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 35231 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 35010 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-5578 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9955 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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