CVE-2011-1002
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · CWE-835
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
avahi-core/socket.c in avahi-daemon in Avahi before 0.6.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an empty mDNS (1) IPv4 or (2) IPv6 UDP packet to port 5353. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2010-2244.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)29%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43361Advisory
- http://avahi.org/ticket/325
- http://git.0pointer.de/?p=avahi.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=46109dfec75534fe270c0ab902576f685d5ab3a6
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055858.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.htmlAdvisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/18/1Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/18/4Advisory
- http://osvdb.org/70948