acpid could be made to stall under certain conditions.
Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that acpid did not properly handle connections from poorly behaving clients. A local attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service.
20 October 2011
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
acpid could be made to stall under certain conditions.
Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that acpid did not properly handle connections from poorly behaving clients. A local attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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