vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-52616: Small Space of Random Values

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Nov 21, 2024
Added
Aug 8, 2025
Modified
Dec 5, 2025

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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-avahi
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