CVE-2011-1159

LOW 2.1CVE-2011-1159 · Published 05/10/2011 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2011-1159 is a LOW (CVSS 2.1) vulnerability affecting acpid (tedfelix).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.1%, higher than 65.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
acpid tedfelix	`= 1.0.10= 1.0.8= 2.0.0= 2.0.1= 2.0.2= 2.0.3= 2.0.4= 2.0.5= 2.0.7= 2.06≤ 2.0.8`	No fix yet

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

lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059880.html · Patch
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060053.html · Patch
secunia.com/advisories/42947 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/44621 · Vendor Advisory
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/19/4 · Exploit
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/12 · Exploit
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/7 · Exploit
securityfocus.com/bid/45915
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi · Patch

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