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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.831676
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandriva Update for acpid MDVSA-2012:086 (acpid)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'acpid'; package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'acpid'
package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.

Vulnerability 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 Software/OS:
acpid on Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.2,
Mandriva Linux 2010.1

Solution:
Please Install the Updated Packages.

CVSS Score:
2.1

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-1159
BugTraq ID: 45915
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45915
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060053.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059880.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/19/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/12
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/7
http://secunia.com/advisories/42947
http://secunia.com/advisories/44621
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