CVE-2025-68468

medium

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.

References

https://github.com/avahi/avahi/security/advisories/GHSA-cp79-r4x9-vf52

https://github.com/avahi/avahi/issues/683

https://github.com/avahi/avahi/commit/f66be13d7f31a3ef806d226bf8b67240179d309a

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-01-12

Updated: 2026-01-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00032