vulnerability
Alma Linux: CVE-2024-52616: Moderate: avahi security update (ALSA-2025-7437)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) | Nov 21, 2024 | May 22, 2025 | Mar 31, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Nov 21, 2024
Added
May 22, 2025
Modified
Mar 31, 2026
Description
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.
Solutions
alma-upgrade-avahialma-upgrade-avahi-autoipdalma-upgrade-avahi-compat-howlalma-upgrade-avahi-compat-howl-develalma-upgrade-avahi-compat-libdns_sdalma-upgrade-avahi-compat-libdns_sd-develalma-upgrade-avahi-develalma-upgrade-avahi-glibalma-upgrade-avahi-glib-develalma-upgrade-avahi-gobjectalma-upgrade-avahi-gobject-develalma-upgrade-avahi-libsalma-upgrade-avahi-tools
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