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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2021-06-02T15:09:21

Updated: 2024-08-03T16:53:17.602Z

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

Link: CVE-2021-3468

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2023-06-22T02:15:48.393

Link: CVE-2021-3468

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2021-3468 - Bugzilla