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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2024-52616: Security patch for avahi (ALAS-2024-2704)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2024-52616: Security patch for avahi (ALAS-2024-2704)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
11/21/2024
Created
12/21/2024
Added
12/20/2024
Modified
01/28/2025

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(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-avahi
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-avahi-autoipd
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-avahi-compat-howl
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-avahi-compat-howl-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-avahi-compat-libdns_sd
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-avahi-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-avahi-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-avahi-dnsconfd
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-avahi-glib
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-avahi-glib-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-avahi-gobject
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-avahi-gobject-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-avahi-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-avahi-qt3
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-avahi-qt3-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-avahi-qt4
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-avahi-qt4-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-avahi-tools
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-avahi-ui
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-avahi-ui-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-avahi-ui-gtk3
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-avahi-ui-tools

References

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