Bug 2428714 (CVE-2025-68468)

Summary: CVE-2025-68468 avahi: Avahi: Denial of Service via crafted mDNS/DNS-SD announcements
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A flaw was found in Avahi. A remote attacker can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by sending specially crafted unsolicited announcements containing CNAME resource records. These records, when pointing to other resource records with short Time-To-Live (TTL) values, can lead to the `avahi-daemon` crashing once they expire. This vulnerability impacts the availability of services relying on Avahi's service discovery.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-01-12 18:02:44 UTC
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, avahi-daemon can be crashed by sending unsolicited announcements containing CNAME resource records pointing it to resource records with short TTLs. As soon as they expire avahi-daemon crashes.