RHEL 9 : avahi (RHSA-2025:7437)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 237331

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:7437 advisory.

Avahi is an implementation of the DNS Service Discovery and Multicast DNS specifications for Zero Configuration Networking. It facilitates service discovery on a local network. Avahi and Avahi-aware applications allow you to plug your computer into a network and, with no configuration, view other people to chat with, view printers to print with, and find shared files on other computers.

Security Fix(es):

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

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL avahi package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:7437.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 237331

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-7437.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/27/2025

Updated: 5/27/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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: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, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.6

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

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

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