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.

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2025:7437 advisory.

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

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 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 Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:7437 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 Predictable Transaction IDs (CVE-2024-52616)

    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 remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2025-7437 advisory.

    [0.8-22]
    - Fix CVE-2024-52616 (RHEL-67722)

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 AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2025:7437 advisory.

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

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 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 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)

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

The version of avahi installed on the remote Azure Linux 3.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2024-52616 advisory.

  - 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)

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 avahi installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2024-52616 advisory.

  - 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)

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 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.

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-2024:4386-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-52616: Fixed Avahi Wide-Area DNS Predictable Transaction IDs (bsc#1233420)

      Other fixes:
      - no longer supply bogus services to callbacks (bsc#1226586).

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-2024:4282-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-52616: sequential increment of DNS transaction IDs allows DNS spoofing. (bsc#1233420)

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.

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.

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-2024:4196-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-52616: Fixed Avahi Wide-Area DNS Predictable Transaction IDs (bsc#1233420)

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
269743	RockyLinux 9 : avahi (RLSA-2025:7437)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	medium
252950	TencentOS Server 4: avahi (TSSA-2025:0544)	Nessus	Tencent Local Security Checks	medium
237331	RHEL 9 : avahi (RHSA-2025:7437)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
237149	Oracle Linux 9 : avahi (ELSA-2025-7437)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
236996	AlmaLinux 9 : avahi (ALSA-2025:7437)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	medium
232013	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-52616	Nessus	Misc.	medium
216575	Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: avahi (CVE-2024-52616)	Nessus	Azure Linux Local Security Checks	medium
216361	CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: avahi (CVE-2024-52616)	Nessus	MarinerOS Local Security Checks	medium
213369	Amazon Linux 2 : avahi (ALAS-2024-2704)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
213269	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : avahi (SUSE-SU-2024:4386-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
212344	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : avahi (SUSE-SU-2024:4282-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
212338	Amazon Linux 2023 : avahi, avahi-autoipd, avahi-compat-howl (ALAS2023-2024-771)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
212311	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : avahi (SUSE-SU-2024:4196-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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