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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2025-68276 json

Avahi has a reachable assertion in avahi_wide_area_scan_cache

published 2026-01-12 9 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-206280

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 4%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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, an unprivileged local users can crash avahi-daemon (with wide-area disabled) by creating record browsers with the AVAHI_LOOKUP_USE_WIDE_AREA flag set via D-Bus. This can be done by either calling the RecordBrowserNew method directly or creating hostname/address/service resolvers/browsers that create those browsers internally themselves.

Patch / fix

  • avahi Debian 14 0.8-18

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68276

  • avahi Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 0.8-5ubuntu5.4
  • avahi Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 0.8-13ubuntu6.1
  • avahi Ubuntu 25.10 0.8-16ubuntu3.1
  • avahi Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 0.6.31-4ubuntu1.3+esm4
  • avahi Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 0.6.32~rc+dfsg-1ubuntu2.3+esm4
  • avahi Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 0.7-3.1ubuntu1.3+esm3
  • avahi Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 0.7-4ubuntu7.3+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68276

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • avahi hummingbird 1 0.9~rc4-0.1.hum1
  • avahi-ui hummingbird 1 0.9~rc4-0.1.hum1
  • avahi-qt3 hummingbird 1 0.9~rc4-0.1.hum1
  • avahi-qt4 hummingbird 1 0.9~rc4-0.1.hum1
  • avahi-qt5 hummingbird 1 0.9~rc4-0.1.hum1
  • avahi-glib hummingbird 1 0.9~rc4-0.1.hum1
  • avahi-libs hummingbird 1 0.9~rc4-0.1.hum1
  • avahi-sharp hummingbird 1 0.9~rc4-0.1.hum1

red hat advisories RHSA-2026:11316

  • avahi Linux Micro 6.0 0.8-7.1
  • avahi SLE Micro 5.5, SLE Micro 5.4, SLE Micro 5.3 0.8-150400.7.26.1
  • avahi SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 0.8-160000.4.1
  • avahi-glib2 SLES for SAP applications 16.0, SLES 16.0 0.8-160000.4.1
  • avahi SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP7, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 +1 more 0.8-150600.15.12.1
  • avahi-qt5 openSUSE Leap 15.6 0.8-150600.15.12.1
  • avahi-glib2 SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7, openSUSE Leap 15.6 0.8-150600.15.12.1
  • avahi SLE Micro 5.2 0.7-150100.3.46.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:20525-1SUSE-SU-2026:0577-1SUSE-SU-2026:0422-1SUSE-SU-2026:20145-1SUSE-SU-2026:20167-1SUSE-SU-2026:0259-1

  • avahi openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.8-160000.4.1
  • avahi-qt6 openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.8-160000.4.1
  • avahi-glib2 openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.8-160000.4.1
  • avahi openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.8-41.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:20110-1openSUSE-SU-2026:10052-1

  • avahi Alpine 3.24 0.8-r25

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2025-68276

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • avahi CBL-Mariner 2.0 0.8-5
  • avahi Azure Linux 3.0 0.8-6

azure linux advisories AZL-74271AZL-74285

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-68276 updated cvss 5.5

avahi: Avahi: Denial of Service via D-Bus record browsers with AVAHI_LOOKUP_USE_WIDE_AREA flag

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 avahi, avahi-ui, avahi-qt3, avahi-qt4, avahi-glib, avahi-libs, +7 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 avahi, avahi-ui, avahi-qt3, avahi-qt4, avahi-glib, avahi-libs, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 avahi, avahi-ui, avahi-glib, avahi-libs, avahi-tools, avahi-autoipd, +5 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 avahi, avahi-glib, avahi-libs, avahi-tools, avahi-autoipd, avahi-gobject, +2 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 avahi Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Hardened Images avahi 0.9~rc4-0.1.hum1, avahi-ui 0.9~rc4-0.1.hum1, avahi-qt3 0.9~rc4-0.1.hum1, avahi-qt4 0.9~rc4-0.1.hum1, avahi-qt5 0.9~rc4-0.1.hum1, avahi-glib 0.9~rc4-0.1.hum1, +11 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:11316

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
9 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 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

  • avahi avahi

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.