CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-68468

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2026-01-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-01-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-617

Description

Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network via the mDNS/DNS-SD protocol suite. In 0.9-rc2 and earlier, avahi-daemon can be crashed by sending unsolicited announcements containing CNAME resource records pointing it to resource records with short TTLs. As soon as they expire avahi-daemon crashes.

Affected configurations

• avahi avahi (< 0.9) • avahi avahi 0.9

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-617 Reachable Assertion weakness

References