Summary
The remote host is missing an update to avahi
announced via advisory DSA 2086-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202086-1
Insight
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2009-0758
Rob Leslie discovered a denial of service vulnerability in the code used to reflect unicast mDNS traffic.
CVE-2010-2244
Ludwig Nussel discovered a denial of service vulnerability in the processing of malformed DNS packets.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.23-3lenny2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.6.26-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your Avahi packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-0758, CVE-2010-2244 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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