USN-1234-1: acpid vulnerability
20 October 2011
acpid could be made to stall under certain conditions.
Releases
Packages
- acpid - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface event daemon
Details
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.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.