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<glsa id="200905-06">
  <title>acpid: Denial of service</title>
  <synopsis>
    An error in acpid might allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of
    Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">acpid</product>
  <announced>2009-05-24</announced>
  <revised count="01">2009-05-24</revised>
  <bug>268079</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-power/acpid" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.0.10</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.0.10</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    acpid is a daemon for the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
    (ACPI).
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    The acpid daemon allows opening a large number of UNIX sockets without
    closing them, triggering an infinite loop.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    Remote attackers can cause a Denial of Service (CPU consumption and
    connectivity loss).
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All acpid users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-power/acpid-1.0.10"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0798">CVE-2009-0798</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2009-05-24T00:11:41Z">
    craig
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-05-24T00:29:02Z">
    craig
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-05-24T18:05:05Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>
