Summary
The remote host is missing an update to acpid
announced via advisory DSA 1786-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201786-1
Insight
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.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-0798 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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