Debian DSA-2174-1 : avahi - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 52462

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that Avahi, an implementation of the zeroconf protocol, can be crashed remotely by a single UDP packet, which may result in a denial of service.

Solution

Upgrade the avahi packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.23-3lenny3.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.27-2+squeeze1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 52462

File Name: debian_DSA-2174.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/1/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:avahi, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/26/2011

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1002

BID: 46446

DSA: 2174

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