{"id":"SUSE-SU-2021:1845-1","summary":"Security update for avahi","details":"This update for avahi fixes the following issues:\n\n- CVE-2021-3468: avoid infinite loop by handling  HUP event in client_work (bsc#1184521).\n- CVE-2021-26720: drop privileges when invoking avahi-daemon-check-dns.sh (bsc#1180827)\n- Update avahi-daemon-check-dns.sh from Debian. Our previous version relied on ifconfig, route, and init.d.\n- Add sudo to requires: used to drop privileges.\n","modified":"2026-03-11T07:17:37.041727Z","published":"2021-06-03T15:52:34Z","related":["CVE-2021-26720","CVE-2021-3468"],"upstream":["CVE-2021-26720","CVE-2021-3468"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2021/suse-su-20211845-1/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1180827"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1184521"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-26720"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3468"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"avahi","ecosystem":"SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 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