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FreeBSD : avahi -- denial of service (8b986a05-4dbe-11e0-8b9a-02e0184b8d35)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 52666

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Avahi developers reports :

A vulnerability has been reported in Avahi, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing certain UDP packets, which can be exploited to trigger an infinite loop by e.g. sending an empty packet to port 5353/UDP.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667187

http://www.nessus.org/u?ce415dcc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 52666

File Name: freebsd_pkg_8b986a054dbe11e08b9a02e0184b8d35.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Published: 3/15/2011

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:avahi, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:avahi-app, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:avahi-autoipd, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:avahi-gtk, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:avahi-libdns, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:avahi-qt3, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:avahi-qt4, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:avahi-sharp, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/21/2011

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2244, CVE-2011-1002

Secunia: 43361