CVE 6.5 MEDIUM

Avahi has a reachable assertion in lookup_multicast_callback_CVE-2025-68468

6.5 / 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-68468
Source GitHub_M
Published Jan 12, 2026 at 17:38

Affected Product

Vendor avahi
Product avahi
Version <= 0.9-rc2
Affected Versions avahi avahi <= 0.9-rc2

CWE Classification

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