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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : avahi vulnerability (USN-1084-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 52580

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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 empty UDP packets. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted packet and cause Avahi to hang, resulting in a denial of service.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1084-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 52580

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1084-1.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/8/2011

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: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

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-core7, 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:avahi, 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:9.10, 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, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/7/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/22/2011

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1002

BID: 46446

USN: 1084-1