Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2006-6870 (CCN-31403)

Assigned:2006-12-29
Published:2006-12-29
Updated:2011-03-08
Summary:The consume_labels function in avahi-core/dns.c in Avahi before 0.6.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted compressed DNS response with a label that points to itself.
This vulnerability is addressed in the following product release:
Avahi, Avahi, 0.6.16
CVSS v3 Severity:7.5 High (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Exploitability Metrics:Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): High
CVSS v2 Severity:5.0 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
3.7 Low (Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:U/RL:OF/RC:C)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): Partial
7.8 High (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
5.8 Medium (CCN Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C/E:U/RL:OF/RC:C)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Athentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): Complete
Vulnerability Type:CWE-Other
Vulnerability Consequences:Denial of Service
References:Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2006-6870

Source: CCN
Type: Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-018
Fedora Core 5 Update: avahi-0.6.11-3.fc5

Source: FEDORA
Type: UNKNOWN
FEDORA-2007-018

Source: FEDORA
Type: UNKNOWN
FEDORA-2007-019

Source: SECUNIA
Type: UNKNOWN
23628

Source: SECUNIA
Type: UNKNOWN
23644

Source: CCN
Type: SA23660
Avahi "consume_labels()" Denial of Service Vulnerability

Source: SECUNIA
Type: UNKNOWN
23660

Source: SECUNIA
Type: UNKNOWN
23673

Source: SECUNIA
Type: UNKNOWN
23782

Source: SECUNIA
Type: UNKNOWN
24995

Source: CCN
Type: Avahi Web site
Avahi - Trac

Source: CONFIRM
Type: Patch
http://www.avahi.org/#December2006

Source: CONFIRM
Type: UNKNOWN
http://www.avahi.org/changeset/1340

Source: CONFIRM
Type: Patch
http://www.avahi.org/ticket/84

Source: MANDRIVA
Type: UNKNOWN
MDKSA-2007:003

Source: SUSE
Type: UNKNOWN
SUSE-SR:2007:007

Source: CCN
Type: OSVDB ID: 31220
Avahi dns.c consume_labels() Function Remote DoS

Source: BID
Type: UNKNOWN
21881

Source: CCN
Type: BID-21881
Avahi Compressed DNS Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Source: CCN
Type: USN-402-1
Avahi vulnerability

Source: UBUNTU
Type: UNKNOWN
USN-402-1

Source: VUPEN
Type: UNKNOWN
ADV-2007-0071

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
avahi-consumelabels-dos(31403)

Source: SUSE
Type: SUSE-SR:2007:007
SUSE Security Summary Report

Vulnerable Configuration:Configuration 1:
  • cpe:/a:avahi:avahi:0.6.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:avahi:avahi:0.6.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:avahi:avahi:0.6.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:avahi:avahi:0.6.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:avahi:avahi:0.6.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:avahi:avahi:0.6.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:avahi:avahi:0.6.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:avahi:avahi:0.6.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:avahi:avahi:0.6.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

    • * Denotes that component is vulnerable
    Oval Definitions
    Definition IDClassTitleLast Modified
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:20066870
    V
    		CVE-2006-6870
    2022-05-20
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:42276
    P
    		Security update for xen (Moderate)
    2022-05-03
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31750
    P
    		Security update for java-1_7_1-ibm (Moderate) (in QA)
    2022-01-04
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26217
    P
    		Security update for java-1_7_1-ibm (Moderate) (in QA)
    2022-01-04
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31336
    P
    		Security update for chrony (Moderate)
    2021-12-22
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:33054
    P
    		Security update for speex (Moderate)
    2021-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31708
    P
    		Security update for webkit2gtk3 (Important)
    2021-11-23
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:32223
    P
    		Security update for postgresql, postgresql13, postgresql14 (Important)
    2021-11-20
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31303
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 37 for SLE 12 SP3) (Important)
    2021-11-19
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31703
    P
    		Security update for MozillaFirefox (Important)
    2021-11-17
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26151
    P
    		Security update for python3 (Moderate)
    2021-10-20
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:33015
    P
    		Security update for atftp (Moderate)
    2021-09-27
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26137
    P
    		Security update for sqlite3 (Important)
    2021-09-23
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26128
    P
    		Security update for postgresql13 (Moderate)
    2021-09-16
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:32167
    P
    		Security update for openssl (Important)
    2021-08-24
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26098
    P
    		Security update for webkit2gtk3 (Important)
    2021-08-03
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31659
    P
    		Security update for qemu (Important)
    2021-07-29
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:32156
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 34 for SLE 12 SP3) (Important)
    2021-07-27
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31226
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 37 for SLE 12 SP3) (Important)
    2021-07-21
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31646
    P
    		Security update for libnettle (Important)
    2021-06-23
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31211
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 33 for SLE 12 SP3) (Important)
    2021-06-18
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31643
    P
    		Security update for apache2 (Important)
    2021-06-17
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:32112
    P
    		Security update for libX11 (Important)
    2021-06-08
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:36091
    P
    		avahi-0.6.23-11.32.1 on GA media (Moderate)
    2021-06-08
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:36375
    P
    		avahi-compat-howl-devel-0.6.23-11.32.1 on GA media (Moderate)
    2021-06-08
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:42498
    P
    		avahi-0.6.23-11.32.1 on GA media (Moderate)
    2021-06-08
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26066
    P
    		Security update for gstreamer-plugins-bad (Important)
    2021-06-07
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:32090
    P
    		Security update for avahi (Important)
    2021-06-03
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:42079
    P
    		Security update for gstreamer, gstreamer-plugins-bad, gstreamer-plugins-base, gstreamer-plugins-good, gstreamer-plugins-ugly (Important)
    2021-06-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26049
    P
    		Security update for lz4 (Important)
    2021-05-14
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31152
    P
    		Security update for qemu (Important)
    2021-04-16
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31603
    P
    		Security update for fwupdate (Important)
    2021-04-08
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31140
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 31 for SLE 12 SP3) (Important)
    2021-04-07
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31141
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 32 for SLE 12 SP3) (Important)
    2021-04-07
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31747
    P
    		Security update for nghttp2 (Important)
    2021-03-24
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31360
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 36 for SLE 12 SP3) (Important)
    2021-03-17
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31358
    P
    		Security update for glib2 (Important)
    2021-03-16
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:32272
    P
    		Security update for python (Moderate)
    2021-03-16
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26209
    P
    		Security update for apache2 (Moderate)
    2021-03-12
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31348
    P
    		Security update for perl-XML-Twig (Moderate)
    2021-03-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26195
    P
    		Security update for php74 (Important)
    2021-02-19
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31337
    P
    		Security update for python (Important)
    2021-02-11
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31569
    P
    		Security update for clamav (Important)
    2020-12-22
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:32833
    P
    		Security update for ovmf (Moderate)
    2020-12-16
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:32011
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 34 for SLE 12 SP3) (Important)
    2020-12-07
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:41932
    P
    		avahi-0.6.23-11.19.22 on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-03
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:35869
    P
    		avahi-0.6.23-11.30.4 on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-03
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:35525
    P
    		avahi-0.6.23-11.19.22 on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-03
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:32002
    P
    		Security update for gdm (Important)
    2020-12-03
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:35672
    P
    		avahi-0.6.23-11.19.22 on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-03
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31558
    P
    		Security update for python3 (Important)
    2020-12-02
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31557
    P
    		Security update for python-setuptools (Important)
    2020-12-02
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25431
    P
    		Security update for java-1_8_0-ibm (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31867
    P
    		Security update for curl (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26554
    P
    		ghostscript-fonts-other on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25852
    P
    		Security update for flash-playerqemu (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25925
    P
    		Security update for pcre (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25361
    P
    		Security update for tomcat (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25623
    P
    		Security update for cifs-utils (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26642
    P
    		sysstat on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26525
    P
    		avahi on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26000
    P
    		Security update for ImageMagick (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25649
    P
    		Security update for libcdio (Low)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31855
    P
    		Security update for crash (Low)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26833
    P
    		tgt on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25982
    P
    		Security update for bash (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26700
    P
    		freetype2 on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25853
    P
    		Security update for gtk2 (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31916
    P
    		Security update for gd (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25224
    P
    		Security update for libqt5-qtbase (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:32311
    P
    		Security update for quagga (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:27373
    P
    		avahi-compat-howl-devel on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25640
    P
    		Security update for libqt5-qtsvg (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31447
    P
    		Security update for postgresql94 (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25941
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:32598
    P
    		python on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25299
    P
    		Security update for webkit2gtk3 (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26319
    P
    		Security update for kde-cli-tools5 (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:32377
    P
    		Security update for tiff (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25652
    P
    		Security update for xen (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25418
    P
    		Security update for raptor (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25999
    P
    		Security update for zziplib (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:30994
    P
    		Security update for jasper (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25508
    P
    		Security update for mailman (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31946
    P
    		Security update for gnutls (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26372
    P
    		Recommended update for geotiff (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25844
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25653
    P
    		Security update for MozillaFirefox (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26672
    P
    		avahi on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25076
    P
    		Security update for cpio (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31079
    P
    		Security update for xorg-x11-server (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25845
    P
    		Security update for mariadb (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:32051
    P
    		Security update for kvm (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:27054
    P
    		wireshark on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26266
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25755
    P
    		Security update for libreoffice (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31813
    P
    		Security update for apache2-mod_jk (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25088
    P
    		Security update for libssh (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31450
    P
    		Security update for postgresql10 (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25420
    P
    		Security update for krb5 (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31554
    P
    		Security update for sqlite3 (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26501
    P
    		Security update for chromium (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25808
    P
    		Security update for LibreOffice (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:32490
    P
    		avahi on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25924
    P
    		Security update for php5 (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25280
    P
    		Security update for MozillaFirefox (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31594
    P
    		Security update for tiff (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:32794
    P
    		systemtap on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25495
    P
    		Security update for shibboleth-sp (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31924
    P
    		Security update for ghostscript-library (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26603
    P
    		libsnmp15-32bit on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26490
    P
    		Security update for pdns (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25936
    P
    		Security update for libreoffice (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25565
    P
    		Security update for SUSE Manager Client Tools (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31806
    P
    		Security update for apache2 (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25704
    P
    		Security update for ppp (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26656
    P
    		zoo on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25800
    P
    		Security update for polkit (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31894
    P
    		Security update for fetchmail (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26868
    P
    		avahi on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25223
    P
    		Security update for openssl-1_0_0 (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:27338
    P
    		xorg-x11-server-dmx on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25902
    P
    		Security update for ImageMagick (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31960
    P
    		Security update for gtk2 (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25235
    P
    		Security update for java-1_7_1-ibm (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26270
    P
    		Security update for mariadb-100 (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:32333
    P
    		Security update for samba (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25641
    P
    		Security update for bcm43xx-firmware (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31775
    P
    		Security update for MozillaFirefox (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25955
    P
    		Security update for gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:32637
    P
    		avahi on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:30993
    P
    		Security update for jasper
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25427
    P
    		Security update for MozillaFirefox (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31790
    P
    		Security update for MozillaFirefox (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26358
    P
    		Security update for Mozilla Thunderbird (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25716
    P
    		Security update for librsvg (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25502
    P
    		Security update for MozillaFirefox (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26637
    P
    		ruby on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31005
    P
    		Security update for java-1_6_0-ibm (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25761
    P
    		Security update for the Linux Kernel (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26416
    P
    		Security update for nginx (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25706
    P
    		Security update for mariadb (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31769
    P
    		Security update for MozillaFirefox (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25077
    P
    		Security update for clamav (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25996
    P
    		Security update for libvirt (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:27089
    P
    		avahi on GA media (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25419
    P
    		Security update for kernel-firmware (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31422
    P
    		Security update for php53 (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26350
    P
    		Security update for ansible (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25794
    P
    		Security update for libssh (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:32451
    P
    		Security update for xen (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25152
    P
    		Security update for pam_radius (Important)
    2020-12-01
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:31507
    P
    		Security update for python27 (Moderate)
    2020-12-01
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