Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-52616

medium Nessus Plugin ID 232013

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- Debian Linux - avahi - 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. Red Hat Enterprise Linux - avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Predictable Transaction IDs Ubuntu Linux - 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.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 232013

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2024_52616.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/6/2025

Updated: 11/5/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-52616

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.10, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:avahi, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-autoipd, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-compat-howl-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-compat-howl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-compat-libdns_sd, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-glib, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-gobject-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-gobject, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-tools, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-ui-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-ui-gtk3, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi-ui, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:avahi, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-avahi, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:avahi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-autoipd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-compat-howl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-compat-howl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-compat-libdns_sd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-glib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-gobject-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-gobject, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-ui-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-ui-gtk3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi-ui, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-avahi

Required KB Items: Host/OS/identifier, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/21/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-52616

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