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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.002
EPSS Ranking 38.1%