Ubuntu Security Update USN-5008-1: Avahi vulnerabilities

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Thomas Kremer discovered that Avahi incorrectly handled termination signals on the Unix socket. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Avahi to hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.10. (CVE-2021-3468) It was discovered that Avahi incorrectly handled certain hotnames. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Avahi to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.10 and Ubuntu 21.04. (CVE-2021-3502)

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