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SUSE: CVE-2021-3502: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2021-3502: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/07/2021
Created
10/26/2022
Added
10/26/2022
Modified
06/13/2023

Description

A flaw was found in avahi 0.8-5. A reachable assertion is present in avahi_s_host_name_resolver_start function allowing a local attacker to crash the avahi service by requesting hostname resolutions through the avahi socket or dbus methods for invalid hostnames. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to the service availability.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-avahi
  • suse-upgrade-avahi-autoipd
  • suse-upgrade-avahi-compat-howl-devel
  • suse-upgrade-avahi-compat-mdnsresponder-devel
  • suse-upgrade-avahi-lang
  • suse-upgrade-avahi-utils
  • suse-upgrade-avahi-utils-gtk
  • suse-upgrade-libavahi-client3
  • suse-upgrade-libavahi-client3-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libavahi-common3
  • suse-upgrade-libavahi-common3-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libavahi-core7
  • suse-upgrade-libavahi-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libavahi-glib-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libavahi-glib1
  • suse-upgrade-libavahi-gobject-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libavahi-gobject0
  • suse-upgrade-libavahi-libevent1
  • suse-upgrade-libavahi-ui-gtk3-0
  • suse-upgrade-libdns_sd
  • suse-upgrade-libhowl0
  • suse-upgrade-typelib-1_0-avahi-0_6

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