Bug 221439 - CVE-2006-6870 Maliciously crafted packed can DoS avahi daemon
Summary: CVE-2006-6870 Maliciously crafted packed can DoS avahi daemon
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: avahi
Version: 5.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Martin Bacovsky
QA Contact:
URL: http://avahi.org/ticket/84
Whiteboard: source=gentoo,impact=important,public...
Depends On:
Blocks: CVE-2006-6870
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Reported: 2007-01-04 17:39 UTC by Lubomir Kundrak
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version: 5.0.0
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2007-01-15 13:52:26 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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Upstram patch for avahi Ticket #84 bug (745 bytes, patch)
2007-01-04 17:39 UTC, Lubomir Kundrak 		no flags Details | Diff
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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.
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