Small Space of Random Values Affecting libhowl0 package, versions <0.8-150400.7.20.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.73% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-LIBHOWL0-8540514
  • published20 Dec 2024
  • disclosed19 Dec 2024

Introduced: 19 Dec 2024

CVE-2024-52616  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-334  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 libhowl0 to version 0.8-150400.7.20.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libhowl0 package and not the libhowl0 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

A flaw was found in the Avahi-daemon, where it initializes DNS transaction IDs randomly only once at startup, incrementing them sequentially after that. This predictable behavior facilitates DNS spoofing attacks, allowing attackers to guess transaction IDs.

CVSS Base Scores

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