SB2024121183 - SUSE update for avahi
Published: December 11, 2024
Security Bulletin ID
SB2024121183
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
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 vulnerability.
1) Predictable Seed in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-52616)
CWE-ID: CWE-337 - Predictable Seed in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
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
Install update from vendor's website.