CVE-2023-1981

Publication date 12 April 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

A vulnerability was found in the avahi library. This flaw allows an unprivileged user to make a dbus call, causing the avahi daemon to crash.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
avahi	23.04 lunar	Fixed 0.8-6ubuntu1.23.04.1
	22.10 kinetic	Fixed 0.8-6ubuntu1.22.10.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 0.8-5ubuntu5.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 0.7-4ubuntu7.2
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 0.7-3.1ubuntu1.3+esm1 Ubuntu Pro
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.6.32~rc+dfsg-1ubuntu2.3+esm2 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.6.31-4ubuntu1.3+esm2 Ubuntu Pro

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
avahi	Upstream: a2696da

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE-2023-1981

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Status

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Patch details

Severity score breakdown

References

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