Record summary

CVE-2011-1159 has a selected CVSS score of 2.1; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.

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.

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

Available material

Catalogued exploits
1

Proofs of concept

1

Catalogued exploits

ExploitDBacpid 1.0.x - Multiple Local Denial of Service VulnerabilitiesExploitDB exploitby Vasiliy KulikovNot analyzed1 file
ExploitDB

PoC details

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