[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#663249: Bug#663249: acpid: fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, O_NONBLOCK) should be fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK)

[Ted Felix]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:28:14PM +0100, Luciano Bello wrote:
 > Is it a security problem?

   Given that F_SETFD != F_SETFL, I would say that this is a security 
problem.  A userspace program can cause acpid to stop processing by 
blocking on a socket.

Ted.