USN-3876-1: Avahi vulnerabilities
USN-3876-1: Avahi vulnerabilities avahi vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 18.10 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in Avahi. Software Description avahi – Avahi IPv4LL network address configuration daemon Details Chad Seaman discovered that Avahi incorrectly handled certain messages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6519, CVE-2018-1000845) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 18.10 avahi-daemon – 0.7-4ubuntu2.1 libavahi-core7 – 0.7-4ubuntu2.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS avahi-daemon – 0.7-3.1ubuntu1.2 libavahi-core7 – 0.7-3.1ubuntu1.2 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS avahi-daemon – 0.6.32~rc+dfsg-1ubuntu2.3 libavahi-core7 – 0.6.32~rc+dfsg-1ubuntu2.3 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS avahi-daemon – 0.6.31-4ubuntu1.3 libavahi-core7 – 0.6.31-4ubuntu1.3 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. In general, a standard system update will make all the [ more… ]