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Fedora Core 5 : avahi-0.6.11-3.fc5 (2007-018)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 24185

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

avahi-0.6.11-3.fc5 should fix CVE-2006-6870 - the consume_labels function in avahi-core/dns.c in Avahi before 0.6.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted compressed DNS response with a label that points to itself.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2f89f387

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 24185

File Name: fedora_2007-018.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/17/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:avahi, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:avahi-compat-howl, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:avahi-compat-howl-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:avahi-compat-libdns_sd, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:avahi-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:avahi-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:avahi-glib, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:avahi-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:avahi-qt3, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:avahi-qt3-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:avahi-sharp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:avahi-tools, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/7/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-6870

FEDORA: 2007-018