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openSUSE Security Update : avahi (avahi-384)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40192

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Specially crafted mDNS packets could crash the Avahi daemon (CVE-2008-5081).

Solution

Update the affected avahi packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459007

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40192

File Name: suse_11_1_avahi-081218.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-compat-howl-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-compat-mdnsresponder-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-client3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-client3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-common3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-common3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-core5, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-glib1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-glib1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-gobject-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-gobject0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-ui0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libdns_sd, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libdns_sd-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libhowl0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python-avahi, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/18/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5081

CWE: 399