Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in acpid:
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 (CVE-2011-1159).
The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
Affected
acpid on Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.2,
Mandriva Linux 2010.1
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-1159 -
CVSS Base Score: 2.1
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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