VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2009-0798
CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability2.31%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2009-04-24
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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.