[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] avahi oldstable update for CVE-2009-0758

[Giuseppe Iuculano]

Hi,

the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for avahi some time ago.

CVE-2009-0758[0]:
| The originates_from_local_legacy_unicast_socket function in
| avahi-core/server.c in avahi-daemon 0.6.23 does not account for the
| network byte order of a port number when processing incoming multicast
| packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
| (network bandwidth and CPU consumption) via a crafted legacy unicast
| mDNS query packet that triggers a multicast packet storm.


Unfortunately the vulnerability described above is not important enough
to get it fixed via regular security update in Debian oldstable. It does
not warrant a DSA.

However it would be nice if this could get fixed via a regular point update[1].
Please contact the release team for this.

This is an automatically generated mail, in case you are already working on an
upgrade this is of course pointless.


For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0758
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2009-0758
[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#upload-stable

Kind regards
Giuseppe.


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