Security update for avahi

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:20032-1
Release Date: 2025-02-03T08:52:10Z
Rating: moderate
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2023-38469 ( SUSE ): 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2023-38469 ( NVD ): 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2023-38471 ( SUSE ): 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2023-38471 ( NVD ): 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Micro 6.0

An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one fix can now be installed.

Description:

This update for avahi fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2023-38471: Extract host name using avahi_unescape_label (bsc#1216594).
  • CVE-2023-38469: Reject overly long TXT resource records (bsc#1216598).

Non-security issue fixed:

  • no longer supply bogus services to callbacks (bsc#1226586).

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Micro 6.0
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.0-35=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
    • avahi-debuginfo-0.8-5.1
    • avahi-debugsource-0.8-5.1
    • avahi-0.8-5.1
    • libavahi-core7-debuginfo-0.8-5.1
    • libavahi-common3-0.8-5.1
    • libavahi-core7-0.8-5.1
    • libavahi-client3-debuginfo-0.8-5.1
    • libavahi-common3-debuginfo-0.8-5.1
    • libavahi-client3-0.8-5.1

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