First published: Tue Apr 12 2011(Updated: )
Avahi is an implementation of the DNS Service Discovery and Multicast DNS<br>specifications for Zero Configuration Networking. It facilitates service<br>discovery on a local network. Avahi and Avahi-aware applications allow you<br>to plug your computer into a network and, with no configuration, view other<br>people to chat with, view printers to print to, and find shared files on<br>other computers.<br>A flaw was found in the way the Avahi daemon (avahi-daemon) processed<br>Multicast DNS (mDNS) packets with an empty payload. An attacker on the<br>local network could use this flaw to cause avahi-daemon on a target system<br>to enter an infinite loop via an empty mDNS UDP packet. (CVE-2011-1002)<br>All users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain<br>a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing the update,<br>avahi-daemon will be restarted automatically.<br>
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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redhat/avahi | <0.6.16-10.el5_6 | 0.6.16-10.el5_6 |
redhat/avahi | <0.6.16-10.el5_6 | 0.6.16-10.el5_6 |
redhat/avahi-compat-howl | <0.6.16-10.el5_6 | 0.6.16-10.el5_6 |
redhat/avahi-compat-howl | <0.6.16-10.el5_6 | 0.6.16-10.el5_6 |
redhat/avahi-compat-howl-devel | <0.6.16-10.el5_6 | 0.6.16-10.el5_6 |
redhat/avahi-compat-howl-devel | <0.6.16-10.el5_6 | 0.6.16-10.el5_6 |
redhat/avahi-devel | <0.6.16-10.el5_6 | 0.6.16-10.el5_6 |
redhat/avahi-devel | <0.6.16-10.el5_6 | 0.6.16-10.el5_6 |
redhat/avahi-glib | <0.6.16-10.el5_6 | 0.6.16-10.el5_6 |
redhat/avahi-glib | <0.6.16-10.el5_6 | 0.6.16-10.el5_6 |
redhat/avahi-glib-devel | <0.6.16-10.el5_6 | 0.6.16-10.el5_6 |
redhat/avahi-glib-devel | <0.6.16-10.el5_6 | 0.6.16-10.el5_6 |
redhat/avahi-qt3 | <0.6.16-10.el5_6 | 0.6.16-10.el5_6 |
redhat/avahi-qt3 | <0.6.16-10.el5_6 | 0.6.16-10.el5_6 |
redhat/avahi-qt3-devel | <0.6.16-10.el5_6 | 0.6.16-10.el5_6 |
redhat/avahi-qt3-devel | <0.6.16-10.el5_6 | 0.6.16-10.el5_6 |
redhat/avahi-tools | <0.6.16-10.el5_6 | 0.6.16-10.el5_6 |
redhat/avahi-tools | <0.6.16-10.el5_6 | 0.6.16-10.el5_6 |
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