[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: acpid-1.0.6-8.fc9

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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 at 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/.

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