Avahi
CVE-2021-3502
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V16 - Security Logging and Error Handling Reachable assertion handling
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| Impact | CVSS score of 5.5 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: local attack vector, low complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction not required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | Successful exploitation could compromise the medium-severity affected system. |
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A flaw was found in avahi 0.8-5. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
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No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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This vulnerability is classified under CWE-617. A flaw was found in avahi 0.8-5. A reachable assertion is present in avahi_s_host_name_resolver_start function allowing a local attacker to crash the avahi service by requesting hostname resolutions through the avahi socket or dbus methods for invalid hostnames. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to the service availability. Affected products include: Avahi.
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
A flaw was found in avahi 0.8-5. A reachable assertion is present in avahi_s_host_name_resolver_start function allowing a local attacker to crash the avahi service by requesting hostname resolutions through the avahi socket or dbus methods for invalid hostnames. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to the service availability.
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Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
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Unprivileged local users on hosts running the Avahi daemon (versions up to and including 0.9-rc2) can open an unbounded
A vulnerability was found in the avahi library. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack compl
avahi-daemon-check-dns.sh in the Debian avahi package through 0.8-4 is executed as root via /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-d
Avahi daemon versions 0.9rc2 and below can be remotely crashed through a denial of service attack by sending a specially
Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network via the mDNS/DNS-SD protocol suite. In 0.9-rc2
A vulnerability was found in Avahi. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No ve
A vulnerability was found in Avahi, where a reachable assertion exists in avahi_dns_packet_append_record. Rated medium s
A vulnerability was found in Avahi. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No ve
A vulnerability was found in Avahi. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No ve
A vulnerability was found in Avahi. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No ve
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