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CVE-2025-68468

Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network via the mDNS/DNS-SD protocol suite. In 0.9-rc2

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 EPSS 0.00018
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Weakness Classification

CWE-617Reachable Assertion
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Affected Products & Versions

2
avahi< 0.9
avahiall versions
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Scoring & Timeline

6.5
MEDIUM · CVSS v3.1 · security-advisories@github.com
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD12 Jan 2026 · 06:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
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Vendor Advisories

13
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2026:21445-1
rhsaRHSA-2026:11316Moderate
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2026:20525-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2026:0577-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2026:0422-1
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References & Sources

3
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
https://github.com/avahi/avahi/commit/f66be13d7f31a3ef806d226bf8b67240179d309aPatch
https://github.com/avahi/avahi/issues/683Issue TrackingPatch
https://github.com/avahi/avahi/security/advisories/GHSA-cp79-r4x9-vf52Vendor Advisory
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