CVE-2006-6870

Summary

CVECVE-2006-6870
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-12-31 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2011-03-08 02:47:00 UTC
DescriptionThe consume_labels 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Avahi Avahi 0.6.10 All All All
Application Avahi Avahi 0.6.11 All All All
Application Avahi Avahi 0.6.12 All All All
Application Avahi Avahi 0.6.13 All All All
Application Avahi Avahi 0.6.14 All All All
Application Avahi Avahi 0.6.15 All All All
Application Avahi Avahi 0.6.7 All All All
Application Avahi Avahi 0.6.8 All All All
Application Avahi Avahi 0.6.9 All All All
Application Avahi Avahi 0.6.10 All All All
Application Avahi Avahi 0.6.11 All All All
Application Avahi Avahi 0.6.12 All All All
Application Avahi Avahi 0.6.13 All All All
Application Avahi Avahi 0.6.14 All All All
Application Avahi Avahi 0.6.15 All All All
Application Avahi Avahi 0.6.7 All All All
Application Avahi Avahi 0.6.8 All All All
Application Avahi Avahi 0.6.9 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-402-1: Avahi vulnerability | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
Fedora update for Avahi - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Avahi Compressed DNS Denial Of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
#84 (potential endless loop) - Avahi - Trac CONFIRM www.avahi.org Patch
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
404 Not Found FEDORA fedoranews.org
404 Not Found FEDORA fedoranews.org
Avahi - Trac CONFIRM www.avahi.org Patch
Fedora update for avahi - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
404 Not Found CONFIRM www.avahi.org
Security Announcement SUSE www.novell.com
Avahi "consume_labels()" Denial of Service Vulnerability - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Advisories - Mandriva Linux MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
Ubuntu update for avahi - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Mandriva update for avahi - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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