USN-402-1: Avahi vulnerability
5 January 2007
Avahi vulnerability
Releases
Details
A flaw was discovered in Avahi's handling of compressed DNS packets. If
a specially crafted reply were received over the network, the Avahi
daemon would go into an infinite loop, causing a denial of service.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 6.10
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avahi-daemon
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0.6.13-2ubuntu2.4
Ubuntu 6.06
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avahi-daemon
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0.6.10-0ubuntu3.4
Ubuntu 5.10
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avahi-daemon
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0.5.2-1ubuntu1.4
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.