CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-5081

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2008-12-17 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
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