Avahi is an implementation of the DNS Service Discovery and Multicast DNS
specifications for Zeroconf Networking. It facilitates service discovery on
a local network. Avahi and Avahi-aware applications allow you to plug your
computer into a network and, with no configuration, view other people to
chat with, see printers to print to, and find shared files on other computers.
Hugo Dias discovered a denial of service flaw in avahi-daemon. A remote
attacker on the same local area network (LAN) could send a
specially-crafted mDNS (Multicast DNS) packet that would cause avahi-daemon
to exit unexpectedly due to a failed assertion check. (CVE-2008-5081)
All users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a
backported patch which resolves this issue. After installing the update,
avahi-daemon will be restarted automatically.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
RedHat | 5 | s390 | avahi | < 0.6.16-1.el5_2.1 | avahi-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.s390.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | ia64 | avahi-compat-howl-devel | < 0.6.16-1.el5_2.1 | avahi-compat-howl-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.ia64.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | ppc64 | avahi-compat-howl | < 0.6.16-1.el5_2.1 | avahi-compat-howl-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.ppc64.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | ppc64 | avahi-glib-devel | < 0.6.16-1.el5_2.1 | avahi-glib-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.ppc64.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | ppc | avahi-tools | < 0.6.16-1.el5_2.1 | avahi-tools-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.ppc.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | i386 | avahi-qt3-devel | < 0.6.16-1.el5_2.1 | avahi-qt3-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | x86_64 | avahi-compat-howl-devel | < 0.6.16-1.el5_2.1 | avahi-compat-howl-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | i386 | avahi-qt3 | < 0.6.16-1.el5_2.1 | avahi-qt3-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | s390 | avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel | < 0.6.16-1.el5_2.1 | avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.s390.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | i386 | avahi-tools | < 0.6.16-1.el5_2.1 | avahi-tools-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm |