Debian Linux - avahi - A flaw was found in Avahi-daemon, which relies on fixed source ports for wide-area DNS queries. This issue simplifies attacks where malicious DNS responses are injected.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux - avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Uses Constant Source Port

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Uses Constant Source Port (CVE-2024-52615)  avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS     Predictable Transaction IDs (CVE-2024-52616) (CVE-2024-52615)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of avahi installed on the remote host is prior to 0.6.31-20. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2704 advisory.

    avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Uses Constant Source Port (CVE-2024-52615)

    avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Predictable Transaction IDs (CVE-2024-52616)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-771 advisory.

    avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Uses Constant Source Port (CVE-2024-52615)

    avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Predictable Transaction IDs (CVE-2024-52616)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
231498	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-52615	Nessus	Misc.	high
213369	Amazon Linux 2 : avahi (ALAS-2024-2704)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
212338	Amazon Linux 2023 : avahi, avahi-autoipd, avahi-compat-howl (ALAS2023-2024-771)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium

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