SB2024121181 - DNS spoofing attack in Avahi
Published: December 11, 2024
Security Bulletin ID
SB2024121181
Severity
Medium
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Predictable Seed in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-52616)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to software initializes DNS transaction IDs randomly only once at startup, incrementing them sequentially after that. A remote attacker can predict subsequent transaction IDs and perform DNS spoofing attack.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.