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.
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Tue, 13 Jan 2026 09:30:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Avahi
Avahi avahi
Vendors & Products Avahi
Avahi avahi

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:15:00 +0000

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threat_severity

Moderate


Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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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.
Title Avahi has a reachable assertion in lookup_multicast_callback
Weaknesses CWE-617
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-01-12T18:41:50.855Z

Reserved: 2025-12-18T13:48:59.555Z

Link: CVE-2025-68468

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-01-12T18:41:47.044Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-01-12T18:15:48.173

Modified: 2026-01-13T14:03:18.990

Link: CVE-2025-68468

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2026-01-12T17:38:10Z

Links: CVE-2025-68468 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-01-13T09:27:34Z

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