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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.63588
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:076 (avahi)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update to avahi;announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:076.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update to avahi
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:076.

Vulnerability Insight:
A security vulnerability has been identified and fixed in avahi which
could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (network
bandwidth and CPU consumption) via a crafted legacy unicast mDNS
query packet (CVE-2009-0758).

The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.

Affected: 2008.0, 2008.1, 2009.0

Solution:
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

CVSS Score:
7.8

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-0758
BugTraq ID: 33946
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33946
Debian Security Information: DSA-2086 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2086
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:076
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517683
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/02/1
http://secunia.com/advisories/38420
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2010:002 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00000.html
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