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acpid: denial of service

Package(s):acpid CVE #(s):CVE-2009-0798
Created:April 28, 2009 Updated:December 7, 2009
Description: From the Ubuntu advisory: It was discovered that acpid did not properly handle a large number of connections. A local user could exploit this and monopolize CPU resources, leading to a denial of service.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:107-1 2009-12-03
Fedora FEDORA-2009-5578 2009-05-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-5608 2009-05-28
Gentoo 200905-06 2009-05-24
CentOS CESA-2009:0474 2009-05-07
Red Hat RHSA-2009:0474-01 2009-05-07
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:107 2009-05-06
Debian DSA-1786-1 2009-05-02
Ubuntu USN-766-1 2009-04-27
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