CVE-2025-68276

MEDIUM

5.5

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, 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. This can be done by either calling the RecordBrowserNew method directly or creating hostname/address/service resolvers/browsers that create those browsers internally themselves.

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

Published1/12/2026

Last Modified1/16/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

avahi:avahi

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-617

References

https://github.com/avahi/avahi/commit/ede7048475c5d47d53890e3bc1350dda8e0b3688(security-advisories@github.com)

https://github.com/avahi/avahi/pull/806(security-advisories@github.com)

https://github.com/avahi/avahi/security/advisories/GHSA-mhf3-865v-g5rc(security-advisories@github.com)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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