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Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7836-03
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7836-03 - An update for avahi is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
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https://access.redhat.com/security/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2023/rhsa-2023_7836.json
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: avahi security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:7836-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7836
Issue date: 2023-12-14
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2021-3468
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Summary:
An update for avahi is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description:
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.
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2021-3468
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939614
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2191687
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2191690
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2191691
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2191692
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2191694
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