[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1125419: avahi: CVE-2025-68471

Salvatore Bonaccorso carnil at debian.org
Tue Jan 13 20:01:33 GMT 2026


Source: avahi
Version: 0.8-10
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/avahi/avahi/issues/678
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for avahi.

CVE-2025-68471[0]:
| 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.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-68471
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68471
[1] https://github.com/avahi/avahi/issues/678
[2] https://github.com/avahi/avahi/security/advisories/GHSA-56rf-42xr-qmmg
[3] https://github.com/avahi/avahi/commit/9c6eb53bf2e290aed84b1f207e3ce35c54cc0aa1

Regards,
Salvatore



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