Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.63043
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu USN-696-1 (avahi)
Summary:	Ubuntu USN-696-1 (avahi)
Description:	The remote host is missing an update to avahi announced via advisory USN-696-1. A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 7.10 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.10 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. Details follow: Emanuele Aina discovered that Avahi did not properly validate it's input when processing data over D-Bus. A local attacker could send an empty TXT message via D-Bus and cause a denial of service (failed assertion). This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. (CVE-2007-3372) Hugo Dias discovered that Avahi did not properly verify it's input when processing mDNS packets. A remote attacker could send a crafted mDNS packet and cause a denial of service (assertion failure). (CVE-2008-5081) Solution: The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: avahi-daemon 0.6.10-0ubuntu3.5 Ubuntu 7.10: avahi-daemon 0.6.20-2ubuntu3.4 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: avahi-daemon 0.6.22-2ubuntu4.1 Ubuntu 8.10: avahi-daemon 0.6.23-2ubuntu2.1 In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-696-1 Risk factor : Medium
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-3372 Bugtraq: 20070628 FLEA-2007-0030-1: avahi avahi-glib avahi-sharp (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/472443/100/0/threaded Debian Security Information: DSA-1690 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1690 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:185 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2007:014 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-696-1 BugTraq ID: 24614 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24614 http://osvdb.org/37507 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2317 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018706 http://secunia.com/advisories/25811 http://secunia.com/advisories/26083 http://secunia.com/advisories/26791 http://secunia.com/advisories/33279 http://secunia.com/advisories/33220 XForce ISS Database: avahi-assert-dos(35036) http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/35036 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-5081 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/7520 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/14/1 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200901-11.xml SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2009:003 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html BugTraq ID: 32825 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32825 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9987 http://secunia.com/advisories/33475 http://secunia.com/advisories/33153
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