CVE-2025-68471

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 2 unsolicited announcements with CNAME resource records 2 seconds apart.

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner":  "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-617"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/68xxx/CVE-2025-68471.json"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/avahi/avahi

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/avahi/avahi

Events

Introduced

8ee3bd6f7921b489bde14f120187a5becf134d30

Fixed

9c6eb53bf2e290aed84b1f207e3ce35c54cc0aa1

Database specific

Show details

{
    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:avahi:avahi:0.9:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "0.9-rc1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected":  "0.9-rc1"
        }
    ],
    "source":  [
        "CPE_STRING",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*

0.9-rc1

v0.*

v0.9-rc1

v0.9-rc2

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-68471.json"

vanir_signatures

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            "length":  761
        },
        "id":  "CVE-2025-68471-8b800984",
        "signature_type":  "Function",
        "signature_version":  "v1",
        "source":  "https://github.com/avahi/avahi/commit/9c6eb53bf2e290aed84b1f207e3ce35c54cc0aa1",
        "target":  {
            "file":  "avahi-core/browse.c",
            "function":  "lookup_start"
        }
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        "source":  "https://github.com/avahi/avahi/commit/9c6eb53bf2e290aed84b1f207e3ce35c54cc0aa1",
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            "file":  "avahi-core/browse.c"
        }
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]

vanir_signatures_modified

"2026-08-18T17:54:18Z"