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.
Related CPE's
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avahi
avahi
2
CVSS impact metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.5 · Medium
Information
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Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Published
2026-01-12T18:15:48.173Z
4 days agoLast modified
2026-01-16T16:52:04.260Z
2 hours ago