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openSUSE 15.2: 2021:0370-1 Moderate: Avahi Privilege Drop Threat

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Calendar Grey March 2, 2021
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openSUSE Security Update: Security update for avahi ________________________________________________
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for avahi fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2021-26720: drop privileges when invoking avahi-daemon-check-dns.sh

(bsc#1180827)

- Update avahi-daemon-check-dns.sh from Debian. Our previous version

relied on ifconfig, route, and init.d.

- Add sudo to requires: used to drop privileges.

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate privilege drop threat moderate threat update instructions avahi openSUSE

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-370=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (i586 x86_64):

avahi-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

avahi-autoipd-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

avahi-autoipd-debuginfo-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

avahi-compat-howl-devel-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

avahi-compat-mDNSResponder-devel-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

avahi-debuginfo-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

avahi-debugsource-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

avahi-glib2-debugsource-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

avahi-utils-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

avahi-utils-debuginfo-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

avahi-utils-gtk-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

avahi-utils-gtk-debuginfo-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

libavahi-client3-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

libavahi-client3-debuginfo-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

libavahi-common3-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

libavahi-common3-debuginfo-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

libavahi-core7-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

libavahi-core7-debuginfo-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

libavahi-devel-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

libavahi-glib-devel-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

libavahi-glib1-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

libavahi-glib1-debuginfo-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

libavahi-gobject-devel-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

libavahi-gobject0-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

libavahi-gobject0-debuginfo-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

libavahi-ui-gtk3-0-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

libavahi-ui-gtk3-0-debuginfo-0.7-lp152.3.6.1

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Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-26720.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1180827

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0370-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate privilege drop threat moderate threat update instructions avahi openSUSE

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