[gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200901-11 ] Avahi: Denial of Service

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200901-11

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http://security.gentoo.org/

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Severity: Normal

Title: Avahi: Denial of Service

Date: January 14, 2009

Bugs: #250913

ID: 200901-11

 

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Synopsis

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A Denial of Service vulnerability has been discovered in Avahi.

 

Background

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Avahi is a system that facilitates service discovery on a local

network.

 

Affected packages

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected

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1 net-dns/avahi < 0.6.24 >= 0.6.24

 

Description

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Hugo Dias reported a failed assertion in the

originates_from_local_legacy_unicast_socket() function in

avahi-core/server.c when processing mDNS packets with a source port of

0.

 

Impact

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A remote attacker could send specially crafted packets to the daemon,

leading to its crash.

 

Workaround

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There is no known workaround at this time.

 

Resolution

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All Avahi users should upgrade to the latest version:

 

# emerge --sync

# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-dns/avahi-0.6.24"

 

References

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[ 1 ] CVE-2008-5081

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5081

 

Availability

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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at

the Gentoo Security Website:

 

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200901-11.xml

 

Concerns?

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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the

confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost

importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to

security ( -at -) gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at

http://bugs.gentoo.org.

 

License

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Copyright 2009 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text

belongs to its owner(s).

 

The contents of this document are licensed under the

Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

 

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5