CVE-2024-52616 (GCVE-0-2024-52616)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-21 20:41 – Updated: 2026-03-24 16:54
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Title
Avahi: avahi wide-area dns predictable transaction ids
Summary
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.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-334 - Small Space of Random Values
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Affected: 0 , < 0.9 (semver)
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 0:0.8-22.el9_6 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
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Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
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Date Public
2024-11-15 00:00
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