{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-38469 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-38469 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux, published on 2 Nov 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-38469 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-38469 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux, published on 2 Nov 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-38469 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Redhat Enterprise Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-38469/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-38469/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-38469","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-38469/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-38469","record":{"aliases":["ALPINE-CVE-2023-38469","AZL-31756","AZL-34549","BELL-CVE-2023-38469","CLEANSTART-2026-VW83784","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38469","GHSA-cg96-q9gq-2pr7","MINI-vcwh-fcx3-jpcp","OESA-2023-1812","ROOT-OS-ALPINE-318-CVE-2023-38469","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-38469"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Avahi DNS responder","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A reachable assertion in Avahi allows attackers to cause a denial of service by triggering a crash in the DNS packet handling logic.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"redhat","cpe":[{"product":"avahi","vendor":"avahi"},{"product":"enterprise_linux","vendor":"redhat"}],"cvss":{"score":6.2,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-617","name":"Reachable Assertion"}],"description":"A vulnerability was found in Avahi, where a reachable assertion exists in avahi_dns_packet_append_record.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Reachable assertion in avahi_dns_packet_append_record","id":"CVE-2023-38469","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"redhat:enterprise_linux","products":["redhat:enterprise_linux"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Reachable assertion in avahi_escape_label","id":"CVE-2023-38470"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Memory corruption in SC7731E/SC9832E/SC9863A/T310/T606/T612/T616/T610/T618/T760/T770/T820/S8000","id":"CVE-2023-38468"},"products":["Fedora","Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6","Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7","Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8","Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9","avahi"],"published":"2023-11-02","related":[{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-6519","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-05-01"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-2021-26720","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-02-17"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"Avahi has Uncontrolled Recursion in lookup_handle_cname function","id":"CVE-2026-24401","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-01-24"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"Avahi has a reachable assertion in lookup_multicast_callback","id":"CVE-2025-68468","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-01-12"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"Avahi has a reachable assertion in lookup_start","id":"CVE-2025-68471","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-01-12"},{"cvss_score":6.2,"headline":"Reachable assertion in avahi_escape_label","id":"CVE-2023-38470","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-11-02"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-28","vendors":["Fedora","Red Hat","avahi"]},"summary":"A reachable assertion in Avahi allows attackers to cause a denial of service by triggering a crash in the DNS packet handling logic.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-38469/"}