CVE-2006-5461

published 2006-11-14

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…

Priority P4 6 low 2.1 CVSS 2.0

AV L AC L Au N C N I P A N

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.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
avahi	avahi	<= 0.6.14	—
avahi	avahi	>= 0 < 0.6.15-1	0.6.15-1
avahi	avahi	>= 0 < 0.6.15-1	0.6.15-1
avahi	avahi	>= 0 < 0.6.15-1	0.6.15-1
avahi	avahi	>= 0 < 0.6.15-1	0.6.15-1
debian	avahi	< avahi 0.6.15-1 (bookworm)	avahi 0.6.15-1 (bookworm)

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 2.1 LOW AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

osv 2.1 LOW

vendor_debian 2.1 LOW

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