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CVE-2021-3468
MEDIUM5.5
Description
A flaw was found in avahi in versions 0.6 up to 0.8. The event used to signal the termination of the client connection on the avahi Unix socket is not correctly handled in the client_work function, allowing a local attacker to trigger an infinite loop. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to the availability of the avahi service, which becomes unresponsive after this flaw is triggered.
CVE Details
CVSS v3.1 Score5.5
SeverityMEDIUM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack VectorLOCAL
ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredLOW
User InteractionNONE
Published6/2/2021
Last Modified11/21/2024
Sourcenvd
Honeypot Sightings0
Affected Products
avahi:avahidebian:debian_linux
Weaknesses (CWE)
CWE-835CWE-835
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939614(secalert@redhat.com)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00009.html(secalert@redhat.com)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00028.html(secalert@redhat.com)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939614(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00009.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00028.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
IOC Correlations
No correlations recorded
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