Avahi: Denial of Service

Avahi: Denial of Service Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Avahi, allowing for Denial of Service. avahi October 22, 2011 October 22, 2011: 1 335885 355583 remote 0.6.28-r1 0.6.28-r1

Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Avahi. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Avahi users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-dns/avahi-0.6.28-r1"

CVE-2010-2244 CVE-2011-1002 craig keytoaster