Summary
The remote host is missing an update to avahi
announced via advisory DSA 1690-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201690-1
Insight
Two denial of service conditions were discovered in avahi, a Multicast DNS implementation.
Huge Dias discovered that the avahi daemon aborts with an assert error if it encounters a UDP packet with source port 0 (CVE-2008-5081).
It was discovered that the avahi daemon aborts with an assert error if it receives an empty TXT record over D-Bus (CVE-2007-3372).
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 0.6.16-3etch2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.6.23-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your avahi packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-3372, CVE-2008-5081 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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