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SUSE-SR:2007:014:vuln8: avahi local denial of service

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SUSE-SR:2007:014:vuln8: avahi local denial of service

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/20/2007
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/26/2007
Modified
11/18/2015

Description

The 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.

Solution(s)

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