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CVE-2010-2244

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-2244 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the AvahiDnsPacket function within avahi-daemon versions 0.6.16 and 0.6.25. A remote attacker can exploit this by sending a crafted sequence of DNS packets, leading to an assertion failure and daemon exit. With a CVSS score of 4.3, this vulnerability has a medium attack complexity and results in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.6.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:avahi:avahi:0.6.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.6.25CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:avahi:avahi:0.6.25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0264 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: avahi-0:0.6.16-9.el5_5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-2244Moderate

avahi: assertion failure after receiving a packet with corrupted checksum

Jun 23, 2010

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043800.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043820.html
marc.info
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
debian.org / security/2010/dsa-2086
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/06/23/4
securitytracker.com / id