CVE-2008-5081 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-5081
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Description: The originates_from_local_legacy_unicast_socket function (avahi-core/server.c) in avahi-daemon in Avahi before 0.6.24 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted mDNS packet with a source port of 0, which triggers an assertion failure.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-696-1 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA33279 Secunia Advisory: SA33220 Secunia Advisory: SA33475 Secunia Advisory: SA33153 MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/14/1 MILW0RM http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/7520 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200901-11.xml DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1690 CONFIRM http://avahi.org/milestone/Avahi%200.6.24 BID 32825

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