First published: Wed Jun 23 2010(Updated: )
Ludwig Nussel reported: [1] <a href="http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/06/23/4">http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/06/23/4</a> a deficiency in the way avahi daemon processed packets with corrupted checksum(s). A remote attacker on the same local are network (LAN) could send a DNS packet with broken checksum, that would cause avahi-daemon to exit unexpectedly due to a failed assertion check. Different vulnerability than <a href="https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-5081">CVE-2008-5081</a>.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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Avahi Avahi | =0.6.25 | |
Avahi Avahi | =0.6.16 | |
redhat/avahi | <0:0.6.16-9.el5_5 | 0:0.6.16-9.el5_5 |
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