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CVE-2025-68468

Published: Jan 12, 2026

Modified: Jan 12, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.5

MEDIUM

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.

VendorProductVersions

avahi

avahi

affected
<= 0.9-rc2

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-617

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

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