DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68468

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-68468
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68468.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68468
Upstream
Published
2026-01-12T18:15:48.173Z
Modified
2026-01-13T11:14:17.815984Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / avahi

Package

Name
avahi
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/avahi?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.8-5
0.8-5+deb11u1
0.8-5+deb11u2
0.8-5+deb11u3
0.8-6
0.8-7
0.8-8
0.8-9
0.8-10
0.8-11
0.8-12
0.8-13
0.8-14
0.8-15
0.8-16
0.8-17

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68468.json"

Debian:12 / avahi

Package

Name
avahi
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/avahi?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.8-10
0.8-10+deb12u1
0.8-11
0.8-12
0.8-13
0.8-14
0.8-15
0.8-16
0.8-17

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68468.json"

Debian:13 / avahi

Package

Name
avahi
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/avahi?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.8-16
0.8-17

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68468.json"

Debian:14 / avahi

Package

Name
avahi
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/avahi?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.8-16
0.8-17

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68468.json"