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EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.0 : avahi (EulerOS-SA-2024-1438)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 192356

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

According to the versions of the avahi package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 - A vulnerability was found in Avahi, where a reachable assertion exists in avahi_dns_packet_append_record.
 (CVE-2023-38469)

 - A vulnerability was found in Avahi. A reachable assertion exists in the avahi_escape_label() function.
 (CVE-2023-38470)

 - A vulnerability was found in Avahi. A reachable assertion exists in the dbus_set_host_name function.
 (CVE-2023-38471)

 - A vulnerability was found in Avahi. A reachable assertion exists in the avahi_rdata_parse() function.
 (CVE-2023-38472)

 - A vulnerability was found in Avahi. A reachable assertion exists in the avahi_alternative_host_name() function. (CVE-2023-38473)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected avahi packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?db31dbb4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 192356

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2024-1438.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 3/21/2024

Updated: 3/21/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-38473

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:huawei:euleros:avahi-libs, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.11.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/21/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/3/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-38469, CVE-2023-38470, CVE-2023-38471, CVE-2023-38472, CVE-2023-38473