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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : avahi (SUSE-SU-2025:03332-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 265826

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:03332-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-52615: wide-area DNS uses constant source port for queries and can expose the Avahi-daemon to DNS spoofing attacks (bsc#1233421).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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://bugzilla.suse.com/1233421

http://www.nessus.org/u?8ddb9692

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-52615

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 265826

File Name: suse_SU-2025-03332-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/25/2025

Updated: 9/25/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, 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-2024-52615

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:novell:suse_linux:avahi-compat-mdnsresponder-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-client3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:avahi-compat-howl-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:avahi-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:avahi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:avahi-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-common3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-common3, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdns_sd-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-core7, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdns_sd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavahi-client3

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: 9/24/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/21/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-52615

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:03332-1