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Debian dla-3990 : avahi-autoipd - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 212178

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3990 advisory.

 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3990-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/ Adrian Bunk December 09, 2024 https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------

 Package : avahi Version : 0.8-5+deb11u3 CVE ID : CVE-2023-1981 CVE-2023-38469 CVE-2023-38470 CVE-2023-38471 CVE-2023-38472 CVE-2023-38473 Debian Bug : 1034594 1054876 1054877 1054878 1054879 1054880

 Multiple vulnerabilities have been fixed in the service discovery system Avahi.

 CVE-2023-1981

 avahi-daemon can be crashed via DBus

 CVE-2023-38469

 Reachable assertion in avahi_dns_packet_append_record

 CVE-2023-38470

 Reachable assertion in avahi_escape_label

 CVE-2023-38471

 Reachable assertion in dbus_set_host_name

 CVE-2023-38472

 Reachable assertion in avahi_rdata_parse

 CVE-2023-38473

 Reachable assertion in avahi_alternative_host_name

 For Debian 11 bullseye, these problems have been fixed in version 0.8-5+deb11u3.

 We recommend that you upgrade your avahi packages.

 For the detailed security status of avahi please refer to its security tracker page at:
 https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/avahi

 Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

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

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

Solution

Upgrade the avahi-autoipd packages.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/avahi

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

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-38469

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-38470

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-38471

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-38472

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-38473

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 212178

File Name: debian_DLA-3990.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/9/2024

Updated: 12/9/2024

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-2023-38473

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, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, 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, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-avahi, 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: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: 12/9/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-1981, CVE-2023-38469, CVE-2023-38470, CVE-2023-38471, CVE-2023-38472, CVE-2023-38473