Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2009-107 - The daemon in 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. The updated packages have been patched to prevent this. Packages for 2008.0 are being provided due to extended support for Corporate products.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:107-1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : acpid
Date : December 3, 2009
Affected: 2008.0
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Problem Description:
The daemon in 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 (CVE-2009-0798).
The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.
Update:
Packages for 2008.0 are being provided due to extended support for
Corporate products.
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0798
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Linux 2008.0:
5f69d7111e4922e03e2af0c9c790c807 2008.0/i586/acpid-1.0.6-1.2mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
965b27578aeba1ee0a6cd17179ab5ee1 2008.0/SRPMS/acpid-1.0.6-1.2mdv2008.0.src.rpm
Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64:
193600a65f75ad4cade617f5e728620d 2008.0/x86_64/acpid-1.0.6-1.2mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
965b27578aeba1ee0a6cd17179ab5ee1 2008.0/SRPMS/acpid-1.0.6-1.2mdv2008.0.src.rpm
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
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