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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.63284
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:031 (avahi)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update to avahi;announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:031.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update to avahi
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:031.

Vulnerability Insight:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Avahi before 0.6.24, which
allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a
crafted mDNS packet with a source port of 0 (CVE-2008-5081).

The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.

Affected: 2008.0, 2008.1, 2009.0

Solution:
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-5081
32825
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32825
33153
http://secunia.com/advisories/33153
33220
http://secunia.com/advisories/33220
33279
http://secunia.com/advisories/33279
33475
http://secunia.com/advisories/33475
7520
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7520
DSA-1690
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1690
GLSA-200901-11
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200901-11.xml
SUSE-SR:2009:003
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html
USN-696-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-696-1
[oss-security] 20081214 Avahi daemon DoS (CVE-2008-5081)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/14/1
http://avahi.org/milestone/Avahi%200.6.24
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9987
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9987
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