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Ubuntu 8.04, 9.04 USN-992-1 Critical Avahi DoS Exploit Resolution

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Calendar Grey September 29, 2010
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu USN-992-1 details resolution for Avahi DoS vulnerabilities affecting its 8.04 and 9.04 releases.
It was discovered that Avahi incorrectly handled certain mDNS query packets when the reflector feature is enabled, which is not the default configuration on Ubuntu

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