A flaw was found in avahi 0.8-5. A reachable assertion is present in avahishostnameresolver_start function allowing a local attacker to crash the avahi service by requesting hostname resolutions through the avahi socket or dbus methods for invalid hostnames. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to the service availability.
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