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Medium RLSA-2023:7836 6 CVEs

Moderate: avahi security update

Published Jan 9, 2024 · Updated Feb 4, 2026

Summary

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: Local DoS by event-busy-loop from writing long lines to /run/avahi-daemon/socket (CVE-2021-3468)

* avahi: Reachable assertion in avahi_dns_packet_append_record (CVE-2023-38469)

* avahi: Reachable assertion in avahi_escape_label (CVE-2023-38470)

* avahi: Reachable assertion in dbus_set_host_name (CVE-2023-38471)

* avahi: Reachable assertion in avahi_rdata_parse (CVE-2023-38472)

* avahi: Reachable assertion in avahi_alternative_host_name (CVE-2023-38473)

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.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 avahi 0:0.7-21.el8_9.1

Vulnerabilities 6

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939614
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2191687
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2191690
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2191691
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2191692
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2191694