Bug 494443 (CVE-2009-0798) - CVE-2009-0798 acpid: too many open files DoS
Summary: CVE-2009-0798 acpid: too many open files DoS
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2009-0798
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact:
URL: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/det...
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 496287 496288 496289 496290 496291 496292 502583
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-04-06 21:23 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2021-11-02 18:04 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2009-06-16 07:09:13 UTC
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
original upstream patch that fixes the issue (8.70 KB, patch)
2009-04-08 17:35 UTC, Vincent Danen
no flags Details | Diff
upstream patch used for 1.1.10 to fix CVE-2009-0798 (7.38 KB, patch)
2009-04-22 21:21 UTC, Vincent Danen
no flags Details | Diff


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2009:0474 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: acpid security update 2009-05-07 11:59:14 UTC

Description Vincent Danen 2009-04-06 21:23:56 UTC
A flaw in how the acpid daemon handles error conditions can force the daemon into an infinite loop by not closing open UNIX sockets, even if the other end of the socket is closed.  If an attacker were to exhaust the number of available sockets open to acpid, too many files would be open and the daemon will enter an infinite loop, consuming a large amount of CPU and blocking legitimate processes from communicating with acpid.

Comment 4 Vincent Danen 2009-04-08 17:35:01 UTC
Created attachment 338766 [details]
original upstream patch that fixes the issue

Comment 8 Vincent Danen 2009-04-21 18:07:04 UTC
Embargo is lifted.

Comment 9 Vincent Danen 2009-04-22 18:41:04 UTC
Upstream has released 1.0.10 which contains the fix for this issue.

Comment 10 Vincent Danen 2009-04-22 21:21:10 UTC
Created attachment 340826 [details]
upstream patch used for 1.1.10 to fix CVE-2009-0798

The patch is slightly different from upstream than what they initially provided us, so we should base our updates on this patch instead.

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2009-05-07 11:59:17 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:0474 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0474.html


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