Gentoo: GLSA 200901-11 Normal: Avahi Denial of Service Issue

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200901-11 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Avahi: Denial of Service Date: January 14, 2009 Bugs: #250913 ID: 200901-11

Synopsis ======= A Denial of Service vulnerability has been discovered in Avahi.
Background ========= Avahi is a system that facilitates service discovery on a local network.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-dns/avahi < 0.6.24 >= 0.6.24
========== 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 ===== A remote...