CVE-2023-38472

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Published 2024-04-30 · Modified 2023-12-14

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

RHSA-2023:7836: avahi security update (Moderate)

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

Mitigation details

Source: Red Hat Errata — Red Hat Inc. · View original ↗ · Open-Errata-API

Description avahi: Reachable assertion in avahi_rdata_parse CVSS v3: 6.2 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) Errata / fixed releases ProductPackageAdvisoryReleased Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8avahi-0:0.7-21.el8_9.1RHSA-2023:78362023-12-14T00:00:00Z Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8avahi-0:0.7-21.el8_9.1RHSA-2023:78362023-12-14T00:00:00Z Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update…

Description

avahi: Reachable assertion in avahi_rdata_parse

CVSS v3: 6.2 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Errata / fixed releases

Product	Package	Advisory	Released
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	`avahi-0:0.7-21.el8_9.1`	RHSA-2023:7836	2023-12-14T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	`avahi-0:0.7-21.el8_9.1`	RHSA-2023:7836	2023-12-14T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support	`avahi-0:0.7-20.el8_6.3`	RHSA-2024:0418	2024-01-25T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support	`avahi-0:0.7-20.el8_8.4`	RHSA-2024:0576	2024-01-30T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	`avahi-0:0.8-20.el9`	RHSA-2024:2433	2024-04-30T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	`avahi-0:0.8-20.el9`	RHSA-2024:2433	2024-04-30T00:00:00Z

Package state

Product	Package	State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	`avahi`	Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	`avahi`	Out of support scope

Apply commands

bash fix

Apply RHSA-2023:7836 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

yum update -y avahi
# or:
dnf upgrade -y avahi

OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

AlmaLinux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	`avahi-0.7-21.el8_9.1.i686.rpm`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.8-14`
sid	Fixed	`0.8-14`
forky	Fixed	`0.8-14`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.8-5+deb11u3`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.8-10+deb12u1`

Red Hat Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—
8	Fixed	—

Rocky Linux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	—

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.