CVE-2025-68468

Description

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-12-18 | Published 2026-01-12 | Updated 2026-01-12 | Assigner GitHub_M

Problem types

CWE-617: Reachable Assertion

Product status

References

github.com/.../avahi/security/advisories/GHSA-cp79-r4x9-vf52

github.com/avahi/avahi/issues/683

github.com/...ommit/f66be13d7f31a3ef806d226bf8b67240179d309a

cve.org (CVE-2025-68468)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-68468)

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