SuSE 10 Security Update : avahi (ZYPP Patch Number 2986)

This update fixes a remote denial of service problem in avahi, where attackers could cause an endless loop. CVE-2006-6870 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if descriptio...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : avahi (avahi-2982)

This update fixes a remote denial of service problem in avahi, where attackers could cause an endless loop. CVE-2006-6870 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update avahi-2982. The text...

Fedora Core 5 : avahi-0.6.11-3.fc5 (2007-018)

avahi-0.6.11-3.fc5 should fix CVE-2006-6870 - the consumelabels function in avahi-core/dns.c in Avahi before 0.6.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop via a crafted compressed DNS response with a label that points to itself. Note that Tenable Network Security has...

Fedora Core 6 : avahi-0.6.16-1.fc6 (2007-019)

This update shoul fix CVE-2006-6870 reported in 221440. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...

CVE-2006-6870

The CVE-2006-6870 vulnerability affects Avahi prior to 0.6.16, where the consume_labels function in avahi-core/dns.c can be triggered by a crafted compressed DNS response containing a label that points to itself. This leads to a denial of service via an infinite loop. Evidence across multiple adv...

CVE-2006-6870

The consumelabels function in avahi-core/dns.c in Avahi before 0.6.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop via a crafted compressed DNS response with a label that points to itself...