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SUSE SLED15: avahi / avahi-autoipd / avahi-compat-howl-devel / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:1014-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 192647

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1014-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2023-38471: Fixed reachable assertion in dbus_set_host_name (bsc#1216594).
 - CVE-2023-38469: Fixed reachable assertions in avahi (bsc#1216598).

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1216594

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1216598

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38469

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38471

http://www.nessus.org/u?f3611c24

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 192647

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1014-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/28/2024

Updated: 6/25/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-38471

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-core7, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-common3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdns_sd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-gobject0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-gobject-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-avahi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:avahi-utils-gtk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:avahi-autoipd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:avahi-compat-howl-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:avahi-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-avahi-0_6, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-glib1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:avahi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhowl0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-libevent1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:avahi-compat-mdnsresponder-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-common3, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-ui-gtk3-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-client3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-client3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:avahi-utils

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: 3/27/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/3/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-38469, CVE-2023-38471

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1014-1