FKIE_CVE-2025-68468

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-01-12 18:15 - Updated: 2026-01-16 16:52
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - 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.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/avahi/avahi/commit/f66be13d7f31a3ef806d226bf8b67240179d309aPatch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/avahi/avahi/issues/683Issue Tracking, Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/avahi/avahi/security/advisories/GHSA-cp79-r4x9-vf52Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
avahi avahi *
avahi avahi 0.9
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              "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:avahi:avahi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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  "id": "CVE-2025-68468",
  "lastModified": "2026-01-16T16:52:04.260",
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          "attackComplexity": "LOW",
          "attackVector": "NETWORK",
          "availabilityImpact": "HIGH",
          "baseScore": 6.5,
          "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM",
          "confidentialityImpact": "NONE",
          "integrityImpact": "NONE",
          "privilegesRequired": "NONE",
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