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Amazon Linux 2 : avahi (ALAS-2023-2372)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 186567

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of avahi installed on the remote host is prior to 0.6.31-20. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2372 advisory.

 A flaw was found in avahi in versions 0.6 up to 0.8. The event used to signal the termination of the client connection on the avahi Unix socket is not correctly handled in the client_work function, allowing a local attacker to trigger an infinite loop. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to the availability of the avahi service, which becomes unresponsive after this flaw is triggered.
 (CVE-2021-3468)

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

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

Solution

Run 'yum update avahi' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2023-2372.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-3468.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 186567

File Name: al2_ALAS-2023-2372.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/4/2023

Updated: 12/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3468

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:avahi-devel, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:avahi-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:avahi-glib, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:avahi-dnsconfd, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:avahi-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:avahi-compat-howl-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:avahi-compat-libdns_sd, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:avahi-qt4, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:avahi-qt3, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:avahi-ui, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:avahi-qt3-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:avahi-qt4-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:avahi-gobject-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:avahi-compat-howl, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:avahi-autoipd, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:avahi-tools, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:avahi-ui-gtk3, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:avahi-ui-tools, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:avahi-ui-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:avahi-gobject, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:avahi-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:avahi

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/29/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/2/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3468