CVE-2023-38473

Reachable assertion in avahi_alternative_host_name

State: Published
Severity: 6.2 Medium
Published: Nov 2, 2023
Updated: Oct 28, 2026
Reserved: Jul 18, 2023

Description

A vulnerability was found in Avahi. A reachable assertion exists in the avahi_alternative_host_name() function.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.2 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-617 Reachable Assertion

Affected Products

Product	Versions
avahiavahi	before 0.9-rc1Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat
FedoraFedora

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38473vdb-entry
RHBZ#2191694issue-tracking
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00011.html

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