CentOS 5 : avahi (CESA-2011:0436)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 53434

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated avahi packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Avahi is an implementation of the DNS Service Discovery and Multicast DNS specifications for Zero Configuration Networking. It facilitates service discovery on a local network. Avahi and Avahi-aware applications allow you to plug your computer into a network and, with no configuration, view other people to chat with, view printers to print to, and find shared files on other computers.

A flaw was found in the way the Avahi daemon (avahi-daemon) processed Multicast DNS (mDNS) packets with an empty payload. An attacker on the local network could use this flaw to cause avahi-daemon on a target system to enter an infinite loop via an empty mDNS UDP packet.
(CVE-2011-1002)

All users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing the update, avahi-daemon will be restarted automatically.

Solution

Update the affected avahi packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 53434

File Name: centos_RHSA-2011-0436.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 4/15/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-compat-howl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-compat-howl-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-compat-libdns_sd, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-glib, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-qt3, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-qt3-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-tools, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/14/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/22/2011

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1002

BID: 46446

RHSA: 2011:0436

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