National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-3372

Overview

The Avahi daemon in Avahi before 0.6.20 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (exit) via empty TXT data over D-Bus, which triggers an assert error.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (01/08/2009)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of avahi as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://avahi.org/milestone/Avahi%200.6.20

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://avahi.org/milestone/Avahi%200.6.20

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-696-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-696-1

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1690

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1690

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33279

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33279

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33220

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33220

External Source: XF

Name: avahi-assert-dos(35036)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/35036

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018706

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018706

External Source: BID

Name: 24614

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24614

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070628 FLEA-2007-0030-1: avahi avahi-glib avahi-sharp

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/472443/100/0/threaded

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2007:014

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDKSA-2007:185

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:185

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-2317

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/2317

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26791

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26791

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26083

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26083

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 25811

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25811

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://avahi.org/changeset/1482

Hyperlink:http://avahi.org/changeset/1482