RHBA-2009:0091 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated acpid package that fixes various bugs is now available.

Description

acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI (Advanced Configuration Power
Interface) events to user-space programs.

This updated acpid package includes fixes for the following bugs:

• the acpid daemon leaked file descriptors whenever a connected client was

disconnected, or the acpid configuration file was broken. In this updated
package, acpid no longer leaks file descriptors.

• the init script for the acpid daemon would sometimes exit with incorrect

or invalid return codes, thus causing the 'status' command to return an
incorrect value. In addition, the acpid init script would return status
code 0 even when acpid was incorrectly run. This has been fixed so that the
init script is compliant with Linux Standard Base (LSB) guidelines, which
resolves these issues.

All users of acpid are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 237752 - Wrong init script
• BZ - 441686 - acpid leaks fds

CVEs

(none)

References

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