CVE-2009-0798: Tim Hockin Acpid

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ACPI Event Daemon (acpid) before 1.0.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and connectivity loss) by opening a large number of UNIX sockets without closing them, which triggers an infinite loop.

Affected products

• Tim Hockin Acpid: up to and including 1.0.8; version 0.99.0 only; version 0.99.1 only; version 0.99.4 only; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; …

Published 2009-04-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.