CVE-2010-2244

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-07-08 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The AvahiDnsPacket function in avahi-core/socket.c in avahi-daemon in Avahi 0.6.16 and 0.6.25 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a DNS packet with an invalid checksum followed by a DNS packet with a valid checksum, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-5081.

Affected products

avahi: 0.6.16, 0.6.25

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043800.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043820.html
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127748459505200&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2086
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:204
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/06/23/4
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024200
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607293
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043800.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043820.html
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127748459505200&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2086

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