CVE-2007-3372

Summary

CVECVE-2007-3372
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-06-22 21:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 2.1 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Avahi Avahi All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1690-1 avahi af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
USN-696-1: Avahi vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Avahi Empty TXT Data Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
osvdb.org/37507 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
Avahi Empty TXT Data Denial of Service - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Debian update for avahi - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Ubuntu update for avahi - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Avahi Can Be Crashed By Local Users Sending Empty TXT Data - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
404 Not Found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 avahi.org
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Mandriva update for avahi - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Milestone Avahi 0.6.20 - Avahi - Trac af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 avahi.org Patch
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2009-01-08Mark J CoxNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of avahi as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
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