Security Advisory

CVE-2006-6870

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2007-01-05 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 20:42:07
Assigner canonical
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.