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avahi: denial of service

Package(s):avahi CVE #(s):CVE-2009-0758
Created:March 16, 2009 Updated:September 29, 2010
Description:

From the Mandriva advisory:

A security vulnerability has been identified and fixed in avahi which could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (network bandwidth and CPU consumption) via a crafted legacy unicast mDNS query packet (CVE-2009-0758).

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-992-1 2010-09-29
Debian DSA-2086-1 2010-08-04
CentOS CESA-2010:0528 2010-07-14
Red Hat RHSA-2010:0528-01 2010-07-13
SuSE SUSE-SR:2010:002 2010-02-01
Gentoo 200904-10 2009-04-08
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:076 2009-03-13
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