CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-5461

2.1 LOW Published 2006-11-14 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-11-14
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

Avahi before 0.6.15 does not verify the sender identity of netlink messages to ensure that they come from the kernel instead of another process, which allows local users to spoof network changes to Avahi.

Affected configurations

• avahi avahi (<= 0.6.14)

References