CVE-2008-5081

50Vexday Risk Score

Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.

ssvc Attendepss 59%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDDec 17

metasploitNov 14

exploitation probability

59%top 1% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

The originates_from_local_legacy_unicast_socket function (avahi-core/server.c) in avahi-daemon in Avahi before 0.6.24 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted mDNS packet with a source port of 0, which triggers an assertion failure.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1

cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/7520unverified

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References

http://avahi.org/milestone/Avahi%200.6.24 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html http://secunia.com/advisories/33153 http://secunia.com/advisories/33220 http://secunia.com/advisories/33279 http://secunia.com/advisories/33475 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200901-11.xml https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9987 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7520 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1690 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/14/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32825