Origin Validation Error
CVE-2017-6519
Summary
avahi-daemon in Avahi through 0.6.32 and 0.7 inadvertently responds to IPv6 unicast queries with source addresses that are not on-link, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) and may cause information leakage by obtaining potentially sensitive information from the responding device via port-5353 UDP packets. NOTE: this may overlap CVE-2015-2809.
- LOW
- NETWORK
- NONE
- UNCHANGED
- NONE
- NONE
- HIGH
- HIGH
CWE-346 - Origin Validation Error
The software does not properly verify that the source of data or communication is valid.
References
Advisory Timeline
- Published