openSUSE 10 Security Update : avahi (avahi-5882)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35565

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Specially crafted mDNS packets could crash the Avahi daemon (CVE-2008-5081).

Solution

Update the affected avahi packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35565

File Name: suse_avahi-5882.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/1/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

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:novell:opensuse:avahi, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-compat-howl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-compat-howl-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-compat-mdnsresponder, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-compat-mdnsresponder-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-compat-mdnsresponder-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-glib, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-glib-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-python, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-qt3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-qt4, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 12/17/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5081

CWE: 399

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