It was discovered that the avahi daemon aborts with an assert error if
it receives an empty TXT record over D-Bus (CVE-2007-3372).
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.6.16-3etch2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.6.23-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your avahi packages.
Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
Size/MD5 checksum: 1570 8ebff455c9264d5dbee95ab9577378e5
Size/MD5 checksum: 891970 3cbc460bbd55bae35f7b57443c063640
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