CVE-2025-68276
Medium
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, 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.
SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability5. percentile0.2%
ProductAvahi
PublishedJan 12, 2026
First seenJan 12, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-617CWE-617
How to fix
Update
- avahi avahi0.9 or later
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| avahi avahi | v < 0.9, 0.9 | 0.9 |
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