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Avahi

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CVE-2026-34933 Apr 03, 22:43 MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial of service in Avahi prior to version 0.9-rc4 allows local unprivileged users to crash avahi-daemon by sending a D-Bus method call with conflicting publish flags. The vulnerability requires local access and low privileges but causes immediate service unavailability. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been confirmed; however, the attack is trivial to execute given the low complexity barrier.

Denial Of Service Avahi
NVD GitHub VulDB
CVSS 3.1
5.5
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2026-24401 Jan 24, 02:15 MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Avahi daemon versions 0.9rc2 and below can be remotely crashed through a denial of service attack by sending a specially crafted mDNS response with a recursive CNAME record pointing to itself, triggering unbounded recursion and stack exhaustion. This vulnerability affects systems using multicast record browsers, including those relying on nss-mdns for service discovery. A patch is available for affected installations.

Denial Of Service Red Hat Avahi Suse
NVD GitHub
CVSS 3.1
6.5
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2025-68471 Jan 12, 18:15 MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

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 2 unsolicited announcements with CNAME resource records 2 seconds apart. [CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM]

Denial Of Service Red Hat Avahi Suse
NVD GitHub
CVSS 3.1
6.5
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2025-68468 Jan 12, 18:15 MEDIUM PATCH This Month

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. [CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM]

Denial Of Service Red Hat Avahi Suse
NVD GitHub
CVSS 3.1
6.5
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2025-68276 Jan 12, 18:15 MEDIUM PATCH This Month

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, an unprivileged local users can crash avahi-daemon (with wide-area disabled) by creating record browsers with the AVAHI_LOOKUP_USE_WIDE_AREA flag set via D-Bus. [CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM]

Denial Of Service Red Hat Avahi Suse
NVD GitHub
CVSS 3.1
5.5
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2023-38473 Nov 02, 16:15 MEDIUM This Month

A vulnerability was found in Avahi. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Red Hat Avahi Enterprise Linux
NVD
CVSS 3.1
5.5
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2023-38472 Nov 02, 15:15 MEDIUM This Month

A vulnerability was found in Avahi. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Red Hat Avahi Enterprise Linux
NVD
CVSS 3.1
5.5
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2023-38471 Nov 02, 15:15 MEDIUM This Month

A vulnerability was found in Avahi. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Red Hat Avahi Enterprise Linux
NVD
CVSS 3.1
5.5
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2023-38470 Nov 02, 15:15 MEDIUM This Month

A vulnerability was found in Avahi. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Red Hat Avahi Enterprise Linux
NVD
CVSS 3.1
5.5
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2023-38469 Nov 02, 15:15 MEDIUM This Month

A vulnerability was found in Avahi, where a reachable assertion exists in avahi_dns_packet_append_record. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Red Hat Avahi Enterprise Linux
NVD
CVSS 3.1
5.5
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2023-1981 May 26, 18:15 MEDIUM POC This Month

A vulnerability was found in the avahi library. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Red Hat Avahi Enterprise Linux Fedora +1
NVD GitHub
CVSS 3.1
5.5
EPSS
0.4%
CVE-2021-3468 Jun 02, 16:15 MEDIUM This Month

A flaw was found in avahi in versions 0.6 up to 0.8. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Debian Avahi Debian Linux
NVD
CVSS 3.1
5.5
EPSS
0.5%
CVE-2021-3502 May 07, 12:15 MEDIUM POC This Month

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.

Denial Of Service Avahi
NVD GitHub
CVSS 3.1
5.5
EPSS
0.4%
CVE-2021-26720 Feb 17, 22:15 HIGH This Week

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-daemon, and allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service or create. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Debian Avahi Debian Linux
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.8
EPSS
0.4%
CVE-2017-6519 May 01, 01:59 CRITICAL POC PATCH Act Now

avahi-daemon in Avahi through 0.6.32 and 0.7 inadvertently responds to IPv6 unicast queries with source addresses that are not on-link, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Denial Of Service Canonical Avahi Ubuntu Linux
NVD GitHub
CVSS 3.1
9.1
EPSS
1.1%
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial of service in Avahi prior to version 0.9-rc4 allows local unprivileged users to crash avahi-daemon by sending a D-Bus method call with conflicting publish flags. The vulnerability requires local access and low privileges but causes immediate service unavailability. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been confirmed; however, the attack is trivial to execute given the low complexity barrier.

Denial Of Service Avahi
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Avahi daemon versions 0.9rc2 and below can be remotely crashed through a denial of service attack by sending a specially crafted mDNS response with a recursive CNAME record pointing to itself, triggering unbounded recursion and stack exhaustion. This vulnerability affects systems using multicast record browsers, including those relying on nss-mdns for service discovery. A patch is available for affected installations.

Denial Of Service Red Hat Avahi +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

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 2 unsolicited announcements with CNAME resource records 2 seconds apart. [CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM]

Denial Of Service Red Hat Avahi +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

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. [CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM]

Denial Of Service Red Hat Avahi +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

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, an unprivileged local users can crash avahi-daemon (with wide-area disabled) by creating record browsers with the AVAHI_LOOKUP_USE_WIDE_AREA flag set via D-Bus. [CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM]

Denial Of Service Red Hat Avahi +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

A vulnerability was found in Avahi. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Red Hat Avahi +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

A vulnerability was found in Avahi. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Red Hat Avahi +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

A vulnerability was found in Avahi. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Red Hat Avahi +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

A vulnerability was found in Avahi. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Red Hat Avahi +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

A vulnerability was found in Avahi, where a reachable assertion exists in avahi_dns_packet_append_record. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Red Hat Avahi +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

A vulnerability was found in the avahi library. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Red Hat Avahi +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

A flaw was found in avahi in versions 0.6 up to 0.8. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Debian Avahi +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

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.

Denial Of Service Avahi
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

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-daemon, and allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service or create. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Debian Avahi +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL POC PATCH Act Now

avahi-daemon in Avahi through 0.6.32 and 0.7 inadvertently responds to IPv6 unicast queries with source addresses that are not on-link, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Denial Of Service Canonical Avahi +1
NVD GitHub

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