CVE-2025-68468

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.
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTNIST
6.5 MEDIUM
NETWORK
LOW
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub_MCNA
6.5 MEDIUM
NETWORK
LOW
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA-ADPADP
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Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: Unknown
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Codename
avahi
bullseye
vulnerable
bullseye (security)
vulnerable
bookworm
vulnerable
trixie
vulnerable
forky
vulnerable
sid
vulnerable
Common Weakness Enumeration
References
https://github.com/avahi/avahi/commit/f66be13d7f31a3ef806d226bf8b67240179d309a
https://github.com/avahi/avahi/issues/683
https://github.com/avahi/avahi/security/advisories/GHSA-cp79-r4x9-vf52