A flaw was found in avahi in versions 0.6 up to 0.8. The event used to signal the termination of the client connection on the avahi Unix socket is not correctly handled in the client_work function, allowing a local attacker to trigger an infinite loop. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to the availability of the avahi service, which becomes unresponsive after this flaw is triggered.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3047-1 avahi security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3466-1 avahi security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-26790 A flaw was found in avahi in versions 0.6 up to 0.8. The event used to signal the termination of the client connection on the avahi Unix socket is not correctly handled in the client_work function, allowing a local attacker to trigger an infinite loop. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to the availability of the avahi service, which becomes unresponsive after this flaw is triggered.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5008-1 Avahi vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5008-2 Avahi vulnerability
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2025-02-13T16:28:23.614Z

Reserved: 2021-03-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-3468

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Status : Modified

Published: 2021-06-02T16:15:08.960

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:21:36.953

Link: CVE-2021-3468

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-03-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-3468 - Bugzilla

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