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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 9.04 / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS : avahi vulnerabilities (USN-992-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 49761

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

It was discovered that Avahi incorrectly handled certain mDNS query packets when the reflector feature is enabled, which is not the default configuration on Ubuntu. A remote attacker could send crafted mDNS queries and perform a denial of service on the server and on the network. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and 9.04.
(CVE-2009-0758)

It was discovered that Avahi incorrectly handled mDNS packets with corrupted checksums. A remote attacker could send crafted mDNS packets and cause Avahi to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-2244).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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

https://usn.ubuntu.com/992-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 49761

File Name: ubuntu_USN-992-1.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/6/2010

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-qt4-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-client3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-gobject-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-compat-howl-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-glib-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:avahi-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:avahi-discover, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-ui-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-qt3-1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-avahi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:avahi-daemon, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-core5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:avahi-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:avahi-autoipd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-core-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-compat-libdnssd1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-glib1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-common-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-client-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:avahi-dnsconfd, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-qt3-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-common3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-core6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-qt4-1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-compat-howl0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-gobject0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:avahi-ui-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-ui0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavahi-common-data

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/29/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/3/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0758, CVE-2010-2244

BID: 33946, 41075

CWE: 399

USN: 992-1