[ MDVSA-2009:076 ] avahi

[dude67]

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Package : avahi
Date : March 13, 2009
Affected: 2008.0, 2008.1, 2009.0
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Problem Description:

A security vulnerability has been identified and fixed in avahi which
could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (network
bandwidth and CPU consumption) via a crafted legacy unicast mDNS
query packet (CVE-2009-0758).

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

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2009-0758
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