Users of avahi please be advised of a DoS (denial of service) vulnerability that has been identified.
To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)
Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
MDVSA-2010:204: [MDVSA-2010:204] avahi DoS
Problem Description:
A vulnerability was discovered and corrected in avahi:
The AvahiDnsPacket function in avahi-core/socket.c in avahi-daemon
in Avahi 0.6.16 and 0.6.25 allows remote attackers to cause a denial
of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a DNS packet with
an invalid checksum followed by a DNS packet with a valid checksum,
a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-5081 (CVE-2010-2244).
Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/ddeb
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