Summary
The remote host is missing an update to avahi
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:076.
Solution
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2009:076
Insight
A security vulnerability has been identified and fixed in avahi which could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (network bandwidth and CPU consumption) via a crafted legacy unicast mDNS query packet (CVE-2009-0758).
The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.
Affected: 2008.0, 2008.1, 2009.0
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-0758 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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