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openSUSE Leap 15.2 Advisory: 2021:0694-1 Moderate Avahi DoS

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Calendar Grey May 9, 2021
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Resolution for avahi security vulnerability in openSUSE. An update has been released addressing the moderate severity flaw CVE-2021-3468.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for avahi fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2021-3468: avoid infinite loop by handling HUP event in client_work

(bsc#1184521).

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

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security advisory moderate update DoS patch infinite loop avahi patch instruction 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-2021-694=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (i586 x86_64):

avahi-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

avahi-autoipd-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

avahi-autoipd-debuginfo-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

avahi-compat-howl-devel-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

avahi-compat-mDNSResponder-devel-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

avahi-debuginfo-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

avahi-debugsource-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

avahi-glib2-debugsource-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

avahi-utils-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

avahi-utils-debuginfo-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

avahi-utils-gtk-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

avahi-utils-gtk-debuginfo-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

libavahi-client3-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

libavahi-client3-debuginfo-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

libavahi-common3-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

libavahi-common3-debuginfo-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

libavahi-core7-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

libavahi-core7-debuginfo-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

libavahi-devel-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

libavahi-glib-devel-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

libavahi-glib1-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

libavahi-glib1-debuginfo-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

libavahi-gobject-devel-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

libavahi-gobject0-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

libavahi-gobject0-debuginfo-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

libavahi-ui-gtk3-0-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

libavahi-ui-gtk3-0-debuginfo-0.7-lp152.3.9.1

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References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3468.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1184521

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0694-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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