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CVE-2011-1159

Date: October 4, 2011

acpid.c in acpid before 2.0.9 does not properly handle a situation in which a process has connected to acpid.socket but is not reading any data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (daemon hang) via a crafted application that performs a connect system call but no read system calls.

Severity Score

Related Resources (12)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060053.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688698
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059880.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1159
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1159
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/7
http://secunia.com/advisories/42947
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/19/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/12
http://secunia.com/advisories/44621
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45915
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2011-1159

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Input Validation

CWE-20

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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