glsa-201110-17.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201110-17">
  <title>Avahi: Denial of Service</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Avahi, allowing for Denial
    of Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">avahi</product>
  <announced>October 22, 2011</announced>
  <revised>October 22, 2011: 1</revised>
  <bug>335885</bug>
  <bug>355583</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-dns/avahi" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.6.28-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.6.28-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local
      network.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Avahi. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Avahi users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-dns/avahi-0.6.28-r1"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-2244">CVE-2010-2244</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1002">CVE-2011-1002</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata timestamp="Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:46:40 +0000" tag="requester">craig</metadata>
  <metadata timestamp="Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:30:30 +0000" tag="submitter">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
</glsa>