Vulnerability in Avahi
CVE-2006-5461
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.1 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (32.3th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 32nd percentile — 32.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
References
- secunia.com/advisories/22932 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/23042 (third-party-advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_26_sr.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/22852 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- usn.ubuntu.com/380-1/ (vendor-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4474 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/23020 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/22807 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- avahi.org/milestone/Avahi 0.6.15
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)