Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting lathiat/avahi package, versions [,0.6.20)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.77% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LATHIATAVAHI-2365882
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Jun 2007
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Jun 2007

CVE-2007-3372  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade lathiat/avahi to version 0.6.20 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The Avahi daemon in Avahi before 0.6.20 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (exit) via empty TXT data over D-Bus, which triggers an assert error.

CVSS Scores

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