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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : avahi vulnerabilities (USN-696-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 36657

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Emanuele Aina discovered that Avahi did not properly validate its input when processing data over D-Bus. A local attacker could send an empty TXT message via D-Bus and cause a denial of service (failed assertion). This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. (CVE-2007-3372)

Hugo Dias discovered that Avahi did not properly verify its input when processing mDNS packets. A remote attacker could send a crafted mDNS packet and cause a denial of service (assertion failure).
(CVE-2008-5081).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/696-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 36657

File Name: ubuntu_USN-696-1.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:avahi-autoipd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:avahi-daemon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:avahi-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:avahi-discover, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:avahi-dnsconfd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:avahi-ui-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:avahi-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-client-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-client3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-common-data, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-common-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-common3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-compat-howl-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-compat-howl0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-compat-libdnssd1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-core-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-core4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-core5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-glib-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-glib1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-gobject-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-gobject0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-qt3-1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-qt3-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-qt4-1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-qt4-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-ui-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-ui0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:monodoc-avahi-manual, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-avahi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python2.4-avahi, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/18/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3372, CVE-2008-5081

BID: 32825

CWE: 399

USN: 696-1