CVE-2010-2244 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2010-2244?

CVE-2010-2244 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 7 Jul 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The AvahiDnsPacket function in avahi-core/socket.c in avahi-daemon in Avahi 0.6.16 and 0.6.25 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a DNS packet with an invalid checksum followed by a DNS packet with a valid checksum, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-5081.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-2244?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Avahi Avahi.

How do I fix CVE-2010-2244?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2010-2244 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-2244 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2017-6519 Denial of service in n/a Critical 9.1
• CVE-2021-26720 Path traversal in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2026-24401 Avahi has Uncontrolled Recursion in lookup_handle_cname function Medium 6.5
• CVE-2025-68468 Avahi has a reachable assertion in lookup_multicast_callback Medium 6.5
• CVE-2025-68471 Avahi has a reachable assertion in lookup_start Medium 6.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2010-2244, GHSA-vxxg-j26r-33g8.