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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-5608
2009-05-28 07:02:35
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Name : acpid
Product : Fedora 9
Version : 1.0.6
Release : 8.fc9
URL :
http://acpid.sourceforge.net/
Summary : ACPI Event Daemon
Description :
acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI events to user-space programs.
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Update Information:
Fixed CVE-2009-0798 (too many open files DoS)
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ChangeLog:
* Wed May 27 2009 Zdenek Prikryl <zprikryl(a)redhat.com> - 1.0.6-8
- Fixed CVE-2009-0798 (too many open files DoS) (#502583)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #502583 - CVE-2009-0798 acpid: too many open files DoS
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502583
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update acpid' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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