A flaw was found in Avahi-daemon, which relies on fixed source ports for wide-area DNS queries. This issue simplifies attacks where malicious DNS responses are injected.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES16 / SLES_SAP16 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:20027-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-52615: Fixed DNS spoofing (bsc#1233421)

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

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

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2026:20013-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-52615: Fixed DNS spoofing (bsc#1233421)

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

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

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

    A flaw was found in Avahi-daemon, which relies on fixed source ports for wide-area DNS queries. This issue     simplifies attacks where malicious DNS responses are injected.(CVE-2024-52615)

    A flaw was found in the Avahi-daemon, where it initializes DNS transaction IDs randomly only once at     startup, incrementing them sequentially after that. This predictable behavior facilitates DNS spoofing     attacks, allowing attackers to guess transaction IDs.(CVE-2024-52616)

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

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

The remote MiracleLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2025-10638:02 advisory.

    * avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Uses Constant Source Port (CVE-2024-52615)

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

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

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

    A flaw was found in Avahi-daemon, which relies on fixed source ports for wide-area DNS queries. This issue     simplifies attacks where malicious DNS responses are injected.(CVE-2024-52615)

    A flaw was found in the Avahi-daemon, where it initializes DNS transaction IDs randomly only once at     startup, incrementing them sequentially after that. This predictable behavior facilitates DNS spoofing     attacks, allowing attackers to guess transaction IDs.(CVE-2024-52616)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS Virtualization avahi security advisory.

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

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2025-991257 advisory.

    A flaw was found in Avahi-daemon, which relies on fixed source ports for wide-area DNS queries. This issue     simplifies attacks where malicious DNS responses are injected.

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

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

The version of AHV installed on the remote host is prior to AHV-11.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the NXSA-AHV-11.0 advisory.

  - There exists a vulnerability in SQLite versions before 3.50.2 where the number of aggregate terms could     exceed the number of columns available. This could lead to a memory corruption issue. We recommend     upgrading to version 3.50.2 or above. (CVE-2025-6965)

  - ncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation in convert_strings     in tinfo/read_entry.c in the terminfo library. (CVE-2022-29458)

  - There is a defect in the CPython tarfile module affecting the TarFile extraction and entry enumeration     APIs. The tar implementation would process tar archives with negative offsets without error, resulting in     an infinite loop and deadlock during the parsing of maliciously crafted tar archives. This vulnerability     can be mitigated by including the following patch after importing the tarfile module:
    https://gist.github.com/sethmlarson/1716ac5b82b73dbcbf23ad2eff8b33e1 (CVE-2025-8194)

  - xsltGetInheritedNsList in libxslt before 1.1.43 has a use-after-free issue related to exclusion of result     prefixes. (CVE-2024-55549)

  - numbers.c in libxslt before 1.1.43 has a use-after-free because, in nested XPath evaluations, an XPath     context node can be modified but never restored. This is related to xsltNumberFormatGetValue,     xsltEvalXPathPredicate, xsltEvalXPathStringNs, and xsltComputeSortResultInternal. (CVE-2025-24855)

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

The remote AlmaLinux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2025:16441 advisory.

    * avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Uses Constant Source Port (CVE-2024-52615)

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

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

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2025:11402 advisory.

    * avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Uses Constant Source Port (CVE-2024-52615)

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

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

The remote RockyLinux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2025:16441 advisory.

    * avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Uses Constant Source Port (CVE-2024-52615)

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

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:03333-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-52615: wide-area DNS uses constant source port for queries and can expose the Avahi-daemon to     DNS spoofing       attacks (bsc#1233421).

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

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:03332-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-52615: wide-area DNS uses constant source port for queries and can expose the Avahi-daemon to     DNS spoofing       attacks (bsc#1233421).

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

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

The remote Oracle Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2025-16441 advisory.

    [0.9~rc2-1.1]
    - Fix for CVE-2024-52615 (RHEL-67715)

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

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:16441 advisory.

    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 with, and find shared files on other computers.

    Security Fix(es):

    * avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Uses Constant Source Port (CVE-2024-52615)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 4 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TSSA-2025:0544 advisory.

    Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 4 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

    CVE-2024-52616:
    A flaw was found in the Avahi-daemon, where it initializes DNS transaction IDs randomly only once at     startup, incrementing them sequentially after that. This predictable behavior facilitates DNS spoofing     attacks, allowing attackers to guess transaction IDs.

    CVE-2024-52615:
    A flaw was found in Avahi-daemon, which relies on fixed source ports for wide-area DNS queries. This issue     simplifies attacks where malicious DNS responses are injected.

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

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

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2025-11402 advisory.

    [0.8-22.1]
    - Fix CVE-2024-52615 (RHEL-94847)

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

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:11402 advisory.

    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 with, and find shared files on other computers.

    Security Fix(es):

    * avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Uses Constant Source Port (CVE-2024-52615)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A flaw was found in Avahi-daemon, which relies on fixed source ports for wide-area DNS queries. This issue     simplifies attacks where malicious DNS responses are injected. (CVE-2024-52615)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of avahi installed on the remote host is prior to 0.6.31-20. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2704 advisory.

    avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Uses Constant Source Port (CVE-2024-52615)

    avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Predictable Transaction IDs (CVE-2024-52616)

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

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

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-771 advisory.

    avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Uses Constant Source Port (CVE-2024-52615)

    avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Predictable Transaction IDs (CVE-2024-52616)

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

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
288029	SUSE SLES16 Security Update : avahi (SUSE-SU-2026:20027-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
284814	openSUSE 16 Security Update : avahi (openSUSE-SU-2026:20013-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
284754	EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : avahi (EulerOS-SA-2026-1081)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
284720	EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : avahi (EulerOS-SA-2026-1061)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
283355	MiracleLinux 9 : avahi-0.8-22.el9_6.1 (AXSA:2025-10638:02)	Nessus	Miracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
281589	EulerOS Virtualization 2.13.0 : avahi (EulerOS-SA-2025-2605)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
281572	EulerOS Virtualization 2.13.1 : avahi (EulerOS-SA-2025-2619)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
278940	Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: avahi (UTSA-2025-991257)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	medium
278723	Nutanix AHV : Multiple Vulnerabilities (NXSA-AHV-11.0)	Nessus	Misc.	high
278474	EulerOS 2.0 SP13 : avahi (EulerOS-SA-2025-2493)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
278457	EulerOS 2.0 SP13 : avahi (EulerOS-SA-2025-2514)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
278435	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : avahi (EulerOS-SA-2025-2454)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
278433	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : avahi (EulerOS-SA-2025-2473)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
269899	AlmaLinux 10 : avahi (ALSA-2025:16441)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	medium
266723	RockyLinux 9 : avahi (RLSA-2025:11402)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	medium
266670	RockyLinux 10 : avahi (RLSA-2025:16441)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	medium
265829	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : avahi (SUSE-SU-2025:03333-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
265826	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : avahi (SUSE-SU-2025:03332-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
265790	Oracle Linux 10 : avahi (ELSA-2025-16441)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
265736	RHEL 10 : avahi (RHSA-2025:16441)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
252950	TencentOS Server 4: avahi (TSSA-2025:0544)	Nessus	Tencent Local Security Checks	medium
242430	Oracle Linux 9 : avahi (ELSA-2025-11402)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
242422	RHEL 9 : avahi (RHSA-2025:11402)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
231498	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-52615	Nessus	Misc.	medium
213369	Amazon Linux 2 : avahi (ALAS-2024-2704)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
212338	Amazon Linux 2023 : avahi, avahi-autoipd, avahi-compat-howl (ALAS2023-2024-771)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium

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