CVE-2011-1159

medium

Description

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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688698

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45915

http://secunia.com/advisories/44621

http://secunia.com/advisories/42947

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060053.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059880.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2011-10-05

Updated: 2012-05-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium