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Debian DLA-3414-1 : avahi - LTS security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 175045

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3414 advisory.

 - avahi-daemon can be crashed via DBus [fedora-all] (CVE-2023-1981)

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

Solution

Upgrade the avahi packages.

For Debian 10 Buster, this problem has been fixed in version 0.7-4+deb10u2.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2023/dla-3414

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-1981

https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/avahi

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 175045

File Name: debian_DLA-3414.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/3/2023

Updated: 6/5/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-1981

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavahi-gobject-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavahi-glib1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavahi-client-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:avahi-discover, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavahi-ui-gtk3-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:avahi-daemon, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavahi-client3, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavahi-core-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavahi-glib-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavahi-ui-gtk3-0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-avahi, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gir1.2-avahi-0.6, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:avahi-dnsconfd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavahi-common3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavahi-core7, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:avahi-autoipd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavahi-compat-libdnssd1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:avahi-ui-utils, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavahi-gobject0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavahi-common-data, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:avahi-utils, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libavahi-common-dev

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/2/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-1981