RHBA-2009:1119 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated avahi packages that fix log output when invalid packets are
received are now available.

Description

Avahi is an implementation of the DNS Service Discovery and Multicast DNS
specifications for Zeroconf Networking. Avahi and Avahi-aware applications
allow users to plug a computer into a network and automatically view other
people to chat with, see printers to print to, and find shared files on
other computers.

If Avahi receives an invalid mDNS packet, then it will write a message to
syslog. The log message does not include the originating IP address of
the packet, so it is not particularly useful to track down the source of
the issue.

This update changes the log message to include the originating IP address
of any invalid mDNS packets. This update also fixes some minor spelling
errors in other log messages.

Users of avahi are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 429138 - Misspellings in error messages ("Recieved", "repsonse").
• BZ - 438013 - [RHEL5.2] avahi-daemon spewing messages to /var/log/message
• BZ - 497874 - Plethora of typos in error messages

CVEs

(none)

References

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