Tim Hockin acpid up to 20010510 resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Tim Hockin acpid up to 20010510 and classified as problematic. The impacted element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to resource management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2009-0798. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Tim Hockin acpid up to 20010510 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The bug was discovered 04/21/2009. The weakness was disclosed 04/24/2009 with Red Hat as Bug 494443 as confirmed bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2009-0798 since 03/04/2009. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 3 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 67855 (Oracle Linux 3 / 4 / 5 : acpid (ELSA-2009-0474)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 117540 (VMware ESX Service Console Updates for Samba and acpid (VMSA-2010-0006)).

Upgrading to version 1.0.0 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 2 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (50060), Tenable (67855), SecurityFocus (BID 34692†), OSVDB (54299†) and Secunia (SA34838†). The entries VDB-50374, VDB-50373 and VDB-50022 are pretty similar. VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.1

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 67855
Nessus Name: Oracle Linux 3 / 4 / 5 : acpid (ELSA-2009-0474)
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OpenVAS ID: 63938
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 1786-1 (acpid)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: acpid 1.0.0

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03/04/2009 🔍
04/21/2009 +48 days 🔍
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04/21/2009 +0 days 🔍
04/22/2009 +1 days 🔍
04/24/2009 +2 days 🔍
04/24/2009 +0 days 🔍
05/04/2009 +10 days 🔍
05/07/2009 +3 days 🔍
05/07/2009 +0 days 🔍
07/12/2013 +1527 days 🔍
03/17/2015 +613 days 🔍
09/02/2019 +1630 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: Bug 494443
Organization: Red Hat
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2009-0798 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2009-0798
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-47912

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X-Force: 50060
SecurityFocus: 34692 - acpid Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 34838
OSVDB: 54299 - CVE-2009-0798 - Acpid - Denial-Of-Service Issue
SecurityTracker: 1022182
Vulnerability Center: 21863 - SourceForge acpid < 1.0.10 Local DoS Vulnerability via Large Number of UNIX Sockets, Low

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/17/2015 23:38
Updated: 09/02/2019 16:31
Changes: 03/17/2015 23:38 (87), 09/02/2019 16:31 (4)
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Cache ID: 216:E11:103

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