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HistoryMay 11, 2024 - 12:00 a.m.

RHEL 6 : avahi (Unpatched Vulnerability)

2024-05-1100:00:00
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2
rhel 6
avahi
multicast dns
vulnerabilities
unpatched

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.056 Low

EPSS

Percentile

93.3%

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  • avahi: Multicast DNS responds to unicast queries outside of local network (CVE-2017-6519)

  • A flaw was found in avahi in versions 0.6 up to 0.8. The event used to signal the termination of the client connection on the avahi Unix socket is not correctly handled in the client_work function, allowing a local attacker to trigger an infinite loop. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to the availability of the avahi service, which becomes unresponsive after this flaw is triggered.
    (CVE-2021-3468)

  • A vulnerability was found in the avahi library. This flaw allows an unprivileged user to make a dbus call, causing the avahi daemon to crash. (CVE-2023-1981)

  • A vulnerability was found in Avahi, where a reachable assertion exists in avahi_dns_packet_append_record.
    (CVE-2023-38469)

  • A vulnerability was found in Avahi. A reachable assertion exists in the avahi_escape_label() function.
    (CVE-2023-38470)

  • A vulnerability was found in Avahi. A reachable assertion exists in the dbus_set_host_name function.
    (CVE-2023-38471)

  • A vulnerability was found in Avahi. A reachable assertion exists in the avahi_rdata_parse() function.
    (CVE-2023-38472)

  • A vulnerability was found in Avahi. A reachable assertion exists in the avahi_alternative_host_name() function. (CVE-2023-38473)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager’s report that the package is installed.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory avahi. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(196616);
  script_version("1.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/05/11");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2017-6519",
    "CVE-2021-3468",
    "CVE-2023-1981",
    "CVE-2023-38469",
    "CVE-2023-38470",
    "CVE-2023-38471",
    "CVE-2023-38472",
    "CVE-2023-38473"
  );

  script_name(english:"RHEL 6 : avahi (Unpatched Vulnerability)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Red Hat 6 host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities that will not be patched.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple
vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - avahi: Multicast DNS responds to unicast queries outside of local network (CVE-2017-6519)

  - A flaw was found in avahi in versions 0.6 up to 0.8. The event used to signal the termination of the
    client connection on the avahi Unix socket is not correctly handled in the client_work function, allowing
    a local attacker to trigger an infinite loop. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to the
    availability of the avahi service, which becomes unresponsive after this flaw is triggered.
    (CVE-2021-3468)

  - A vulnerability was found in the avahi library. This flaw allows an unprivileged user to make a dbus call,
    causing the avahi daemon to crash. (CVE-2023-1981)

  - A vulnerability was found in Avahi, where a reachable assertion exists in avahi_dns_packet_append_record.
    (CVE-2023-38469)

  - A vulnerability was found in Avahi. A reachable assertion exists in the avahi_escape_label() function.
    (CVE-2023-38470)

  - A vulnerability was found in Avahi. A reachable assertion exists in the dbus_set_host_name function.
    (CVE-2023-38471)

  - A vulnerability was found in Avahi. A reachable assertion exists in the avahi_rdata_parse() function.
    (CVE-2023-38472)

  - A vulnerability was found in Avahi. A reachable assertion exists in the avahi_alternative_host_name()
    function. (CVE-2023-38473)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package
is installed.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"The vendor has acknowledged the vulnerabilities but no solution has been provided. Refer to the vendor for remediation
guidance.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2017-6519");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vendor_unpatched", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2015/03/03");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2024/05/11");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Red Hat Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl", "redhat_repos.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}


include('rpm.inc');
include('rhel.inc');

if (!get_kb_item("global_settings/vendor_unpatched"))
exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || 'Red Hat' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Red Hat');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Red Hat');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (!rhel_check_release(operator: 'ge', os_version: os_ver, rhel_version: '6')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Red Hat 6.x', 'Red Hat ' + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu && 'ppc' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Red Hat', cpu);

var constraints = [
  {
    'pkgs': [
      {'reference':'avahi', 'release':'6', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'unpatched_pkg':'avahi'}
    ]
  }
];


var flag = 0;
foreach var constraint_array ( constraints ) {
  var repo_relative_urls = NULL;
  var enterprise_linux_flag = rhel_repo_urls_has_content_dist_rhel(repo_urls:repo_relative_urls);
  foreach var pkg ( constraint_array['pkgs'] ) {
    var unpatched_pkg = NULL;
    var _release = NULL;
    var sp = NULL;
    var el_string = NULL;
    var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
    var exists_check = NULL;
    var cves = NULL;
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['unpatched_pkg'])) unpatched_pkg = pkg['unpatched_pkg'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['release'])) _release = 'RHEL' + pkg['release'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['sp'])) sp = pkg['sp'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['exists_check'])) exists_check = pkg['exists_check'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['cves'])) cves = pkg['cves'];
    if (unpatched_pkg &&
        _release &&
        (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check)) &&
        unpatched_package_exists(release:_release, package:unpatched_pkg, cves: cves)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  var extra = NULL;
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : unpatched_packages_report()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'avahi');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
redhatenterprise_linux5cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5
redhatenterprise_linux6cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
redhatenterprise_linux7cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
redhatenterprise_linux8cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
redhatenterprise_linuxavahip-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:avahi