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RHEL 8 : avahi (RHSA-2023:7190)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 185682

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for avahi.

Description

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

 - avahi: avahi-daemon can be crashed via DBus (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 RHEL avahi package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:7190.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?69eb3814

http://www.nessus.org/u?819248f8

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185911

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 185682

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-7190.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/14/2023

Updated: 4/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-autoipd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-compat-howl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-compat-howl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-compat-libdns_sd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-glib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-gobject, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-gobject-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-ui, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-ui-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-ui-gtk3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-avahi

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

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

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2023:7190