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AlmaLinux 9 : avahi (ALSA-2025:7437)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 236996

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2025:7437 advisory.

 * avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Predictable Transaction IDs (CVE-2024-52616)

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

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-2025:7437

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-7437.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 236996

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2025-7437.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 5/21/2025

Updated: 5/21/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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: 4.6

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:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:avahi-gobject, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:avahi-compat-howl, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:avahi-glib, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:avahi-compat-libdns_sd, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:avahi, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:avahi-autoipd, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:avahi-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:avahi-libs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:avahi-glib-devel, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:avahi-compat-howl-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:avahi-gobject-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:avahi-tools, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/21/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-52616

CWE: 334

RHSA: 2025:7437