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File broadcast-avahi-dos

Script types: prerule
Categories: broadcast, dos, intrusive, vuln
Download: http://nmap.org/svn/scripts/broadcast-avahi-dos.nse

User Summary

Attempts to discover hosts in the local network using the DNS Service Discovery protocol and sends a NULL UDP packet to each host to test if it is vulnerable to the Avahi NULL UDP packet denial of service (CVE-2011-1002).

The broadcast-avahi-dos.wait script argument specifies how many number of seconds to wait before a new attempt of host discovery. Each host who does not respond to this second attempt will be considered vulnerable.

Reference:

Script Arguments

broadcast-avahi-dos.wait

Wait time in seconds before executing the check, the default value is 20 seconds.

dnssd.services

See the documentation for the dnssd library.

max-newtargets, newtargets

See the documentation for the target library.

Example Usage

nmap --script=broadcast-avahi-dos

Script Output

| broadcast-avahi-dos: 
|   Discovered hosts:
|     10.0.1.150
|     10.0.1.151
|   After NULL UDP avahi packet DoS (CVE-2011-1002).
|   Hosts that seem down (vulnerable):
|_    10.0.1.151

Requires


Author: Djalal Harouni

License: Same as Nmap--See http://nmap.org/book/man-legal.html

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