Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Nov 21, 2024· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2024-52616

Description

A flaw was found in the Avahi-daemon, where it initializes DNS transaction IDs randomly only once at startup, incrementing them sequentially after that. This predictable behavior facilitates DNS spoofing attacks, allowing attackers to guess transaction IDs.

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

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References

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7437nvd
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-52616nvd
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvd
github.com/avahi/avahi/pull/577nvd

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