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Avahi: avahi wide-area dns predictable transaction ids

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

A flaw was found in the Avahi-daemon, where it initializes DNS transaction IDs randomly only once at startup, incrementing them sequentially after that. This predictable behavior facilitates DNS spoofing attacks, allowing attackers to guess transaction IDs.

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CVE-2024-52616

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Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2024-52616

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/1/product

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/3/product

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/4/product

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Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/5/product

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Structured affected-version data

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  {
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "0.9",
        "versionType": "semver"
      }
    ],
    "packageName": "avahi",
    "collectionURL": "https://github.com/avahi/avahi/",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  },
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream",
      "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb",
      "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos"
    ],
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "0:0.8-22.el9_6",
        "lessThan": "*",
        "versionType": "rpm"
      }
    ],
    "packageName": "avahi",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "defaultStatus": "affected"
  },
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream",
      "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb",
      "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos"
    ],
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "0:0.8-22.el9_6",
        "lessThan": "*",
        "versionType": "rpm"
      }
    ],
    "packageName": "avahi",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "defaultStatus": "affected"
  },
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
    ],
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "packageName": "avahi",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "defaultStatus": "unknown"
  },
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
    ],
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "packageName": "avahi",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "defaultStatus": "affected"
  },
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4"
    ],
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4",
    "packageName": "openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "defaultStatus": "affected"
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2024-52616

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medium

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Event
#49438 · Revision 1
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