CVE-2025-68468
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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 Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| avahi | avahi | <= 0.9-rc2 | affected |
Weaknesses
- CWE-617: CWE-617: Reachable Assertion
ADP Enrichment
CISA ADP Vulnrichment
- SSVC:
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: no
- Technical Impact: partial
References
- https://github.com/avahi/avahi/security/advisories/GHSA-cp79-r4x9-vf52
- https://github.com/avahi/avahi/issues/683
- https://github.com/avahi/avahi/commit/f66be13d7f31a3ef806d226bf8b67240179d309a
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