Bug 2508072 - CVE-2026-48045 python-zeroconf: Zeroconf: Unauthenticated network attacker can cause Denial of Service [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-48045 python-zeroconf: Zeroconf: Unauthenticated network attacker ca...
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: python-zeroconf
Version: 45
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
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Assignee: Miro Hrončok
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["82c54321-75f1-401d-99fc-1...
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Blocks: CVE-2026-48045
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-07-28 16:18 UTC by jkelly
Modified: 2026-08-29 10:11 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2026-08-29 10:11:09 UTC
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Description jkelly 2026-07-28 16:18:13 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Zeroconf is a pure Python implementation of multicast DNS service discovery. Prior to 0.149.12, AsyncListener.handle_query_or_defer retained every truncated TC-bit incoming query, each up to _MAX_MSG_ABSOLUTE = 8966 bytes, in self._deferred[addr] and armed a per-address timer in self._timers[addr] without capping the per-address list or distinct addr keys, allowing unauthenticated hosts on the local link over UDP/5353 (224.0.0.251 / ff02::fb) to spoof sources, grow _deferred and _timers, and cause memory exhaustion and quadratic CPU burn. This issue is fixed in version 0.149.12.

Comment 1 Aoife Moloney 2026-08-17 15:39:37 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 45 development cycle.
Changing version to 45.

Comment 2 Peter Robinson 2026-08-29 10:11:09 UTC
Fixed in F-45+ because it's not possible to upgrade earlier releases without significant effort due to dependencies on newer protobuf releases not in older versions of Fedora.


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