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Scientific Linux: 2009-01-12 Moderate: Avahi DoS Vulnerability Fix

Calendar Jan 12, 2009 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory moderate denial of service update network avahi scientific linux
Moderate: avahi security update 
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:04:09 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: avahi on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: avahi security update
Issue date:	2009-01-12
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-5081

Hugo Dias discovered a denial of service flaw in avahi-daemon. A remote
attacker on the same local area network (LAN) could send a
specially-crafted mDNS (Multicast DNS) packet that would cause avahi-daemon
to exit unexpectedly due to a failed assertion check. (CVE-2008-5081)

After installing the update, the avahi-daemon will be restarted automatically.

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
avahi-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.src.rpm
 i386:
avahi-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
avahi-compat-howl-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
avahi-compat-howl-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
avahi-compat-libdns_sd-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
avahi-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
avahi-glib-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
avahi-glib-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
avahi-qt3-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
avahi-qt3-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
avahi-tools-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
avahi-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
avahi-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
avahi-compat-howl-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
avahi-compat-howl-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
avahi-compat-howl-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
avahi-compat-howl-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
avahi-compat-libdns_sd-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
avahi-compat-libdns_sd-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
avahi-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
avahi-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
avahi-glib-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
avahi-glib-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
avahi-glib-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
avahi-glib-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
avahi-qt3-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
avahi-qt3-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
avahi-qt3-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
avahi-qt3-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
avahi-tools-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson