USN-6487-1

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    USN-6487-1

    Published: 20 Nov 2023Last Modified: 29 Jun 2026

    Summary: avahi vulnerabilities

    Details: Evgeny Vereshchagin discovered that Avahi contained several reachable assertions, which could lead to intentional assertion failures when specially crafted user input was given. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-38469, CVE-2023-38470, CVE-2023-38471, CVE-2023-38472, CVE-2023-38473)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6487-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-38469, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-38470, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-38471, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-38472, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-38473

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: avahi

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/avahi?arch=source&distro=trusty%2Fesm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.6.31-4ubuntu1.3+esm3

    Affected versions

    0.6.31-2ubuntu4
    0.6.31-2ubuntu5
    0.6.31-3ubuntu1
    0.6.31-4ubuntu1
    0.6.31-4ubuntu1.1
    0.6.31-4ubuntu1.2
    0.6.31-4ubuntu1.3
    0.6.31-4ubuntu1.3+esm1
    0.6.31-4ubuntu1.3+esm2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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