CVE-2026-24401

MEDIUM

6.5

Description

Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network via the mDNS/DNS-SD protocol suite. In versions 0.9rc2 and below, avahi-daemon can be crashed via a segmentation fault by sending an unsolicited mDNS response containing a recursive CNAME record, where the alias and canonical name point to the same domain (e.g., "h.local" as a CNAME for "h.local"). This causes unbounded recursion in the lookup_handle_cname function, leading to stack exhaustion. The vulnerability affects record browsers where AVAHI_LOOKUP_USE_MULTICAST is set explicitly, which includes record browsers created by resolvers used by nss-mdns. This issue is patched in commit 78eab31128479f06e30beb8c1cbf99dd921e2524.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score6.5

SeverityMEDIUM

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionREQUIRED

Published1/24/2026

Last Modified2/12/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

avahi:avahi

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-674

References

https://github.com/avahi/avahi/commit/78eab31128479f06e30beb8c1cbf99dd921e2524(security-advisories@github.com)

https://github.com/avahi/avahi/issues/501(security-advisories@github.com)

https://github.com/avahi/avahi/security/advisories/GHSA-h4vp-5m8j-f6w3(security-advisories@github.com)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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