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SUSE SLES11 Security Update : avahi (SUSE-SU-2019:13947-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 122093

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for avahi fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

CVE-2018-1000845: Fixed DNS amplification and reflection to spoofed addresses (DOS) (bsc#1120281)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch sdksp4-avahi-13947=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-avahi-13947=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-avahi-13947=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1120281

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1000845/

http://www.nessus.org/u?c7c5c38d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 122093

File Name: suse_SU-2019-13947-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/11/2019

Updated: 6/20/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:avahi-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:avahi-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:avahi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-client3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-common3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-core5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-glib1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdns_sd

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/8/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/20/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000845