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Avahi Denial of Service and Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA20022
Release Date: 2006-05-08
Last Update: 2006-05-11
Popularity: 6,453 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Avahi 0.x

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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Avahi, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

1) An error within the handling of mDNS name conflicts can be exploited to disconnect mDNS/DNS-SD services.

2) An unspecified error in avahi-core can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow and may allow arbitrary code execution with privileges of the "avahi" user.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions prior to 0.6.10.

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