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Debian DSA-2174-1: Moderate Avahi Remote DoS Threat Resolved

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Calendar Grey February 26, 2011
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A vital patch for OpenSSL addresses a security vulnerability in various Linux systems. Immediate upgrade advised.
It was discovered that avahi, an implementation of the zeroconf protocol, can be crashed remotely by a single UDP packet, which may result in a denial of service
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Summary

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.6.23-3lenny3.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.6.27-2+squeeze1.

For the testing (wheezy) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem
has been fixed in version 0.6.28-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your avahi packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



Package: avahi
CVE ID: CVE-2011-1002

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