CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-5081
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-12-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
The originates_from_local_legacy_unicast_socket function (avahi-core/server.c) in avahi-daemon in Avahi before 0.6.24 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted mDNS packet with a source port of 0, which triggers an assertion failure.
Affected configurations
• avahi avahi (<= 0.6.23)
• avahi avahi 0.1
• avahi avahi 0.2
• avahi avahi 0.3
• avahi avahi 0.4
• avahi avahi 0.5
• avahi avahi 0.5.1
• avahi avahi 0.5.2
• avahi avahi 0.6.1
• avahi avahi 0.6.2
• avahi avahi 0.6.3
• avahi avahi 0.6.4
• avahi avahi 0.6.5
• avahi avahi 0.6.6
• avahi avahi 0.6.7
• avahi avahi 0.6.8
• avahi avahi 0.6.9
• avahi avahi 0.6.10
• avahi avahi 0.6.11
• avahi avahi 0.6.12
• avahi avahi 0.6.13
• avahi avahi 0.6.14
• avahi avahi 0.6.15
• avahi avahi 0.6.16
• avahi avahi 0.6.17
• avahi avahi 0.6.18
• avahi avahi 0.6.19
• avahi avahi 0.6.20
• avahi avahi 0.6.21
• avahi avahi 0.6.22
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://avahi.org/milestone/Avahi%200.6.24 avahi.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33153 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33220 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33279 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33475 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200901-11.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1690 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/14/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32825 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-696-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9987 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7520 www.exploit-db.com
- http://avahi.org/milestone/Avahi%200.6.24 avahi.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33153 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33220 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33279 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33475 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200901-11.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1690 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/14/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32825 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-696-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9987 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7520 www.exploit-db.com