CVE-2006-5461 (GCVE-0-2006-5461)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-11-14 22:00
Modified
2024-08-07 19:48
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Avahi before 0.6.15 does not verify the sender identity of netlink messages to ensure that they come from the kernel instead of another process, which allows local users to spoof network changes to Avahi.
References
http://secunia.com/advisories/22932 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/23042 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_26_sr.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/22852 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
https://usn.ubuntu.com/380-1/ vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4474 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/23020 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/22807 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://avahi.org/milestone/Avahi%200.6.15 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017257 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/avahi-tickets/2006-November/000320.html mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:215 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30207 vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-13.xml vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21016 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a n/a Version: n/a
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