cve-2023-1981
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-05-26 00:00
Modified
2025-01-15 21:38
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A vulnerability was found in the avahi library. This flaw allows an unprivileged user to make a dbus call, causing the avahi daemon to crash.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1981Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185911Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/375Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1981Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185911Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/375Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a avahi Version: avahi-0.7-20
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