[ MDVSA-2009:031 ] avahi

[dude67]

A vulnerability has been discovered in Avahi before 0.6.24, which
allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a
crafted mDNS packet with a source port of 0 (CVE-2008-5081).

The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2008-5081
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