CVE-2011-1002

medium
Published 2011-02-22 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

avahi-core/socket.c in avahi-daemon in Avahi before 0.6.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an empty mDNS (1) IPv4 or (2) IPv6 UDP packet to port 5353. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2010-2244.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

fedora Fedora Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
15 Affected โ€”
redhat Red Hat Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
6.0 Affected โ€”
5.0 Affected โ€”
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
10.10 Affected โ€”
10.04 Affected โ€”
9.10 Affected โ€”
8.04 Affected โ€”
debian Debian Mixed 8 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0.6.28-4
sid Fixed 0.6.28-4
forky Fixed 0.6.28-4
bullseye Fixed 0.6.28-4
bookworm Fixed 0.6.28-4
7.0 Affected โ€”
6.0 Affected โ€”
5.0 Affected โ€”

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
avahiavahi{"endIncluding":"0.6.28"}
avahiavahi0.1
avahiavahi0.2
avahiavahi0.3
avahiavahi0.4
avahiavahi0.5
avahiavahi0.5.1
avahiavahi0.5.2
avahiavahi0.6.1
avahiavahi0.6.2
avahiavahi0.6.3
avahiavahi0.6.4
avahiavahi0.6.5
avahiavahi0.6.6
avahiavahi0.6.7
avahiavahi0.6.8
avahiavahi0.6.9
avahiavahi0.6.10
avahiavahi0.6.11
avahiavahi0.6.12
avahiavahi0.6.13
avahiavahi0.6.14
avahiavahi0.6.15
avahiavahi0.6.16
avahiavahi0.6.17
avahiavahi0.6.18
avahiavahi0.6.19
avahiavahi0.6.20
avahiavahi0.6.21
avahiavahi0.6.22
avahiavahi0.6.23
avahiavahi0.6.24
avahiavahi0.6.25
avahiavahi0.6.26
avahiavahi0.6.27

References

CWEs

CWE-835

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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