ALAS2-2020-1502

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-6519  

avahi-daemon in Avahi through 0.6.32 and 0.7 inadvertently responds to IPv6 unicast queries with source addresses that are not on-link, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) and may cause information leakage by obtaining potentially sensitive information from the responding device via port-5353 UDP packets. NOTE: this may overlap CVE-2015-2809. (CVE-2017-6519)

ALAS2-2020-1502


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2020-1502
Advisory Release Date: 2020-10-22 17:19 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2020-10-22 22:39 Pacific
Severity: Low
References: CVE-2017-6519 

Issue Overview:

avahi-daemon in Avahi through 0.6.32 and 0.7 inadvertently responds to IPv6 unicast queries with source addresses that are not on-link, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) and may cause information leakage by obtaining potentially sensitive information from the responding device via port-5353 UDP packets. NOTE: this may overlap CVE-2015-2809. (CVE-2017-6519)


Affected Packages:

avahi


Issue Correction:
Run yum update avahi to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    avahi-0.6.31-20.amzn2.aarch64
    avahi-tools-0.6.31-20.amzn2.aarch64
    avahi-ui-tools-0.6.31-20.amzn2.aarch64
    avahi-glib-0.6.31-20.amzn2.aarch64
    avahi-glib-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.aarch64
    avahi-gobject-0.6.31-20.amzn2.aarch64
    avahi-gobject-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.aarch64
    avahi-ui-0.6.31-20.amzn2.aarch64
    avahi-ui-gtk3-0.6.31-20.amzn2.aarch64
    avahi-ui-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.aarch64
    avahi-qt3-0.6.31-20.amzn2.aarch64
    avahi-qt3-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.aarch64
    avahi-qt4-0.6.31-20.amzn2.aarch64
    avahi-qt4-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.aarch64
    avahi-libs-0.6.31-20.amzn2.aarch64
    avahi-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.aarch64
    avahi-compat-howl-0.6.31-20.amzn2.aarch64
    avahi-compat-howl-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.aarch64
    avahi-compat-libdns_sd-0.6.31-20.amzn2.aarch64
    avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.aarch64
    avahi-autoipd-0.6.31-20.amzn2.aarch64
    avahi-dnsconfd-0.6.31-20.amzn2.aarch64
    avahi-debuginfo-0.6.31-20.amzn2.aarch64

i686:
    avahi-0.6.31-20.amzn2.i686
    avahi-tools-0.6.31-20.amzn2.i686
    avahi-ui-tools-0.6.31-20.amzn2.i686
    avahi-glib-0.6.31-20.amzn2.i686
    avahi-glib-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.i686
    avahi-gobject-0.6.31-20.amzn2.i686
    avahi-gobject-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.i686
    avahi-ui-0.6.31-20.amzn2.i686
    avahi-ui-gtk3-0.6.31-20.amzn2.i686
    avahi-ui-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.i686
    avahi-qt3-0.6.31-20.amzn2.i686
    avahi-qt3-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.i686
    avahi-qt4-0.6.31-20.amzn2.i686
    avahi-qt4-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.i686
    avahi-libs-0.6.31-20.amzn2.i686
    avahi-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.i686
    avahi-compat-howl-0.6.31-20.amzn2.i686
    avahi-compat-howl-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.i686
    avahi-compat-libdns_sd-0.6.31-20.amzn2.i686
    avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.i686
    avahi-autoipd-0.6.31-20.amzn2.i686
    avahi-dnsconfd-0.6.31-20.amzn2.i686
    avahi-debuginfo-0.6.31-20.amzn2.i686

src:
    avahi-0.6.31-20.amzn2.src

x86_64:
    avahi-0.6.31-20.amzn2.x86_64
    avahi-tools-0.6.31-20.amzn2.x86_64
    avahi-ui-tools-0.6.31-20.amzn2.x86_64
    avahi-glib-0.6.31-20.amzn2.x86_64
    avahi-glib-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.x86_64
    avahi-gobject-0.6.31-20.amzn2.x86_64
    avahi-gobject-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.x86_64
    avahi-ui-0.6.31-20.amzn2.x86_64
    avahi-ui-gtk3-0.6.31-20.amzn2.x86_64
    avahi-ui-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.x86_64
    avahi-qt3-0.6.31-20.amzn2.x86_64
    avahi-qt3-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.x86_64
    avahi-qt4-0.6.31-20.amzn2.x86_64
    avahi-qt4-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.x86_64
    avahi-libs-0.6.31-20.amzn2.x86_64
    avahi-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.x86_64
    avahi-compat-howl-0.6.31-20.amzn2.x86_64
    avahi-compat-howl-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.x86_64
    avahi-compat-libdns_sd-0.6.31-20.amzn2.x86_64
    avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel-0.6.31-20.amzn2.x86_64
    avahi-autoipd-0.6.31-20.amzn2.x86_64
    avahi-dnsconfd-0.6.31-20.amzn2.x86_64
    avahi-debuginfo-0.6.31-20.amzn2.x86_64