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TITLE:
nss-mdns Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27690

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27690/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
nss-mdns 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/16629/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in nss-mdns, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to the use of miss-aligned data
structures within the "_nss_mdns_gethostbyname2_r()" function in
nss.c and can be exploited to crash an application using the
library.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.10 running on
the ARM and SPARC architectures.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.10.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Daniel Smolik

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=423222
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=451428

nss-mdns:
http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/#news

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