CVE-2025-68468

Public on 2026-01-12
Modified on 2026-01-14
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.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.7
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 2 - Core avahi Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 avahi Pending Fix

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H