🛡️ CVE-2025-68468
🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-617 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-617
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-01-12
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2026-01-16

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
avahi

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