Denial of Service Vulnerability in Avahi-Daemon

CVE-2011-1002 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

avahi-core/socket.c in avahi-daemon in Avahi before 0.6.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an empty mDNS (1) IPv4 or (2) IPv6 UDP packet to port 5353. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2010-2244.

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