Local Denial of Service Vulnerability in Avahi by Red Hat
CVE-2021-3468

5.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Avahi

Status
Avahi
Vendor
CVE Published:
2 June 2021

What is CVE-2021-3468?

A flaw in Avahi, affecting versions 0.6 to 0.8, allows a local attacker to exploit the mishandling of an event in the client_work function, leading to an infinite loop. This results in the Avahi service becoming unresponsive, severely affecting its availability and potentially disrupting services dependent on this functionality.

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Affected Version(s)

avahi All avahi versions 0.6 up to 0.8

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939614
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https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg0...
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https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg0...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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