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CVE-2024-52615

Publication date 21 November 2024

Last updated 27 November 2024


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

A flaw was found in Avahi-daemon, which relies on fixed source ports for wide-area DNS queries. This issue simplifies attacks where malicious DNS responses are injected.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
avahi 24.10 oracular
Vulnerable
24.04 LTS noble
Vulnerable
22.04 LTS jammy
Vulnerable
20.04 LTS focal
Vulnerable
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation

Notes


mdeslaur

Avahi upstream hasn't fixed this issue, but they now disable wide-area by default: https://github.com/avahi/avahi/pull/577 Another bug exists to track improving wide-area: https://github.com/avahi/avahi/issues/578

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.3 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N