medium5.5
CVE-2025-68276
Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network via the mDNS/DNS-SD protocol suite.
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Avahi | Avahi | before 0.9 Version 0.9 |