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.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-01-12T17:38:10.492Z

Last Modified :

2026-01-12T18:41:50.855Z

Source :

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AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-68468 vulnerability.

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Avahi
  • Avahi
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https://github.com/avahi/avahi/commit/f66be13d7f31a3ef806d226bf8b67240179d309a cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/avahi/avahi/issues/683 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/avahi/avahi/security/advisories/GHSA-cp79-r4x9-vf52 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
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