Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1786-1 acpid -- denial of service

Date Reported:

02 May 2009

Affected Packages:

acpid

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-0798.

More information:

It was discovered that acpid, a daemon for delivering ACPI events, is prone to a denial of service attack by opening a large number of UNIX sockets, which are not closed properly.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.8-1lenny1.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-5etch1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.10-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your acpid packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.4.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.4-5etch1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.4-5etch1.diff.gz
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.4-5etch1_amd64.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.4-5etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.4-5etch1_ia64.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.8-1lenny1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.8-1lenny1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.8.orig.tar.gz
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.8-1lenny1_amd64.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.8-1lenny1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.8-1lenny1_ia64.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.