Bug 1216598 (CVE-2023-38469)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2023-38469: avahi: CVEs assigned for reachable assertions in avahi
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	SMASH SMASH <smash_bz>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Status:	IN_PROGRESS ---	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	bindu.tg, gianluca.gabrielli, gnome-bugs, praveenkumar.handigol, stoyan.manolov, yfjiang
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/372779/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2023-38469:6.2:(AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description SMASH SMASH 2023-10-26 08:42:15 UTC

Posted by Alan Coopersmith on Oct 06While the CVE database still shows them as reserved, Red Hat's & Debian's
trackers show several CVE's being assigned for client requests that can
cause the Avahi server to abort with an assertion failure.  Only one of
them has a fix available so far.

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CVE-2023-38469: https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/455
  Reachable assertion in...

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2023-38469

Comment 1 Gianluca Gabrielli 2023-10-26 08:43:12 UTC

Affected packages:
 - SUSE:ALP:Source:Standard:1.0/avahi
 - SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update/avahi
 - SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update/avahi
 - SUSE:SLE-15-SP4:Update/avahi

Upstream patch at https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/commit/61b9874ff91dd20a12483db07df29fe7f35db77f

Comment 7 PraveenKumar Handigol 2024-01-10 08:30:10 UTC

The source patches have been generated and I am in the process of building Avahi with the development branch source code.
I will be submitting it for the review ASAP.

Comment 12 Maintenance Automation 2024-03-27 16:30:13 UTC

SUSE-SU-2024:1008-1: An update that solves two vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 1216594, 1216598
CVE References: CVE-2023-38469, CVE-2023-38471
Maintenance Incident: [SUSE:Maintenance:33131](https://smelt.suse.de/incident/33131/)
Sources used:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 (src):
 avahi-glib2-0.6.32-32.24.1, avahi-0.6.32-32.24.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (src):
 avahi-glib2-0.6.32-32.24.1, avahi-0.6.32-32.24.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (src):
 avahi-glib2-0.6.32-32.24.1, avahi-0.6.32-32.24.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (src):
 avahi-glib2-0.6.32-32.24.1, avahi-0.6.32-32.24.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 12-SP5 (src):
 avahi-glib2-0.6.32-32.24.1

NOTE: This line indicates an update has been released for the listed product(s). At times this might be only a partial fix. If you have questions please reach out to maintenance coordination.

Comment 13 Maintenance Automation 2024-03-27 20:30:03 UTC

SUSE-SU-2024:1014-1: An update that solves two vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 1216594, 1216598
CVE References: CVE-2023-38469, CVE-2023-38471
Maintenance Incident: [SUSE:Maintenance:33129](https://smelt.suse.de/incident/33129/)
Sources used:
openSUSE Leap 15.4 (src):
 avahi-qt5-0.8-150400.7.16.1, avahi-0.8-150400.7.16.1, avahi-glib2-0.8-150400.7.16.1
openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 (src):
 avahi-0.8-150400.7.16.1
openSUSE Leap Micro 5.4 (src):
 avahi-0.8-150400.7.16.1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 (src):
 avahi-qt5-0.8-150400.7.16.1, avahi-0.8-150400.7.16.1, avahi-glib2-0.8-150400.7.16.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 (src):
 avahi-0.8-150400.7.16.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 (src):
 avahi-0.8-150400.7.16.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 (src):
 avahi-0.8-150400.7.16.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 (src):
 avahi-0.8-150400.7.16.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 (src):
 avahi-0.8-150400.7.16.1
Basesystem Module 15-SP5 (src):
 avahi-0.8-150400.7.16.1, avahi-glib2-0.8-150400.7.16.1
Desktop Applications Module 15-SP5 (src):
 avahi-0.8-150400.7.16.1, avahi-glib2-0.8-150400.7.16.1
SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP5 (src):
 avahi-0.8-150400.7.16.1

NOTE: This line indicates an update has been released for the listed product(s). At times this might be only a partial fix. If you have questions please reach out to maintenance coordination.

Comment 14 Maintenance Automation 2024-04-05 08:30:02 UTC

SUSE-SU-2024:1118-1: An update that solves two vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 1216594, 1216598
CVE References: CVE-2023-38469, CVE-2023-38471
Maintenance Incident: [SUSE:Maintenance:33130](https://smelt.suse.de/incident/33130/)
Sources used:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 (src):
 avahi-0.7-150100.3.32.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2 (src):
 avahi-0.7-150100.3.32.1

NOTE: This line indicates an update has been released for the listed product(s). At times this might be only a partial fix. If you have questions please reach out to maintenance coordination.

Comment 17 Maintenance Automation 2024-06-25 12:30:09 UTC

SUSE-SU-2024:2200-1: An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one security fix can now be installed.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 1216594, 1216598, 1226586
CVE References: CVE-2023-38469, CVE-2023-38471
Maintenance Incident: [SUSE:Maintenance:34466](https://smelt.suse.de/incident/34466/)
Sources used:
openSUSE Leap 15.6 (src):
 avahi-qt5-0.8-150600.15.3.1, avahi-0.8-150600.15.3.1, avahi-glib2-0.8-150600.15.3.1
Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (src):
 avahi-0.8-150600.15.3.1, avahi-glib2-0.8-150600.15.3.1
Desktop Applications Module 15-SP6 (src):
 avahi-0.8-150600.15.3.1, avahi-glib2-0.8-150600.15.3.1
SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP6 (src):
 avahi-0.8-150600.15.3.1

NOTE: This line indicates an update has been released for the listed product(s). At times this might be only a partial fix. If you have questions please reach out to maintenance coordination.

Comment 18 Maintenance Automation 2024-07-12 16:31:04 UTC

SUSE-SU-2024:1014-2: An update that solves two vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 1216594, 1216598
CVE References: CVE-2023-38469, CVE-2023-38471
Maintenance Incident: [SUSE:Maintenance:33129](https://smelt.suse.de/incident/33129/)
Sources used:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 (src):
 avahi-0.8-150400.7.16.1

NOTE: This line indicates an update has been released for the listed product(s). At times this might be only a partial fix. If you have questions please reach out to maintenance coordination.