Avahi Can Be Crashed By Local Users Sending Empty TXT Data
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1018706
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1018706
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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-3372
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Sep 18 2007
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Impact: Denial of service via local system
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Fix Available: Yes
Exploit Included: Yes
Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): prior to 0.6.20
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Description: A vulnerability was reported in Avahi. A local user can cause denial of service conditions.
A local user can send passing empty TXT data over the D-Bus to the Avahi daemon to cause the target daemon to crash.
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Impact: A local user can cause the target service to crash.
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Solution: The vendor has issued a fixed version (0.6.20).
The vendor's advisory is available at:
http://avahi.org/milestone/Avahi%200.6.20
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Vendor URL: avahi.org/milestone/Avahi%200.6.20 (Links to External Site)
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Cause: Exception handling error
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Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any)
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Reported By: security@mandriva.com
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Message History:
None.
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