CVE-2011-1159
acpid < 2.0.9 - Denial of Service via Unread Socket Connection
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2011-1159. PoCs published by Vasiliy Kulikov.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates a local denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in the 'acpid' daemon by opening multiple connections to a Unix domain socket, causing the service to hang. It specifically targets acpid 1.0.10, as tested on Ubuntu 10.04.
Description
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.
Exploits (1)
This exploit demonstrates a local denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in the 'acpid' daemon by opening multiple connections to a Unix domain socket, causing the service to hang. It specifically targets acpid 1.0.10, as tested on Ubuntu 10.04.