CVE-2021-3468 (GCVE-0-2021-3468)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-06-02 15:09
Modified
2025-02-13 16:28
Severity ?
CWE
Summary
A flaw was found in avahi in versions 0.6 up to 0.8. The event used to signal the termination of the client connection on the avahi Unix socket is not correctly handled in the client_work function, allowing a local attacker to trigger an infinite loop. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to the availability of the avahi service, which becomes unresponsive after this flaw is triggered.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a avahi Version: All avahi versions 0.6 up to 0.8
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