Bug 221439

Summary: CVE-2006-6870 Maliciously crafted packed can DoS avahi daemon
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak>
Component: avahiAssignee: Martin Bacovsky <mbacovsk>
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Version: 5.0Keywords: Security
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URL: http://avahi.org/ticket/84
Whiteboard: source=gentoo,impact=important,public=20070103,reported=20070104
Fixed In Version: 5.0.0 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Upstram patch for avahi Ticket #84 bug none

Description Lubomir Kundrak 2007-01-04 17:39:46 UTC 
Description of problem:

Malformed compressed packed can trigger an endless loop
consuming 100% of cpu time upon its reception.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

FC5 (0.6.11), FC6 (0.6.15), RHEL5 (0.6.15)

Steps to Reproduce:

No reproducer available.
Comment 1 Lubomir Kundrak 2007-01-04 17:39:46 UTC 
Created attachment 144823 [details]
Upstram patch for avahi Ticket #84 bug
Comment 3 Nalin Dahyabhai 2007-01-05 17:11:02 UTC 
Martin suggests an update to 0.6.16, which incorporates this specific fix and a
number of others.  Proposing an exception.
Comment 6 Martin Bacovsky 2007-01-08 16:00:36 UTC 
Avahi was upgraded to 0.6.16 which should resolve this issue.
Comment 7 Mark J. Cox 2007-01-14 10:12:04 UTC 
in 20070112 tree
Comment 8 Jay Turner 2007-01-15 13:52:26 UTC 
avahi-0.6.16-1.el5 included in 20071111.1 and 20071112.3 trees.