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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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