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CentOS 8 : avahi (CESA-2023:7190)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 185618

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2023:7190 advisory.

 - A vulnerability was found in the avahi library. This flaw allows an unprivileged user to make a dbus call, causing the avahi daemon to crash. (CVE-2023-1981)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7190

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 185618

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2023-7190.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/14/2023

Updated: 11/14/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-1981

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8-stream, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-autoipd, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-compat-howl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-compat-howl-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-compat-libdns_sd, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-glib, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-gobject, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-gobject-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-tools, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-ui, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-ui-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-ui-gtk3, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-avahi

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-1981

RHSA: 2023:7190