Gentoo GLSA-200904-10 Normal: Avahi Denial of Service Issue

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200904-10 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Avahi: Denial of Service Date: April 08, 2009 Bugs: #260971 ID: 200904-10

Synopsis ======= An error in Avahi might lead to a Denial of Service via network and CPU consumption.
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-r2 >= 0.6.24-r2
========== Rob Leslie reported that the originates_from_local_legacy_unicast_socket() function in avahi-core/server.c does not account for the network byte order of a port number when processing incoming multic...