Resource Management Errors Affecting lathiat/avahi package, versions [,0.6.29)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.76% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LATHIATAVAHI-2365881
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Feb 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Feb 2011

CVE-2011-1002  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade lathiat/avahi to version 0.6.29 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors 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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