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openSUSE 16 Security Update : avahi (openSUSE-SU-2026:20013-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 284814

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2026:20013-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-52615: Fixed DNS spoofing (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

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 284814

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20013-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2026

Updated: 1/15/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

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:opensuse:avahi-utils-gtk, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-glib1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-gobject-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libdns_sd, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-compat-howl-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-common3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-utils, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-core7, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-avahi-gtk, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libhowl0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:typelib-1_0-avahi-0_6, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-gobject0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-qt6-1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-libevent1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-autoipd, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-compat-mdnsresponder-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-qt6-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-client3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python313-avahi, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-ui-gtk3-0

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: 1/11/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/21/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-52615