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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3468

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3468 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:13avahi0
Debian:12avahi0
Debian:14avahi0

Timeline

  • Jun 2, 2021 CVE Published
  • Oct 23, 2026 CVE Updated
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