CVE-2011-1159 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can cause the acpid daemon to hang by connecting to its socket without reading data, resulting in a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2011-1159?
CVE-2011-1159 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 5 Oct 2011. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-1159?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Tedfelix Acpid.
How do I fix CVE-2011-1159?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2011-1159 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2011-1159 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1159, GHSA-vp73-h36r-mx65.