CVE-2025-68468
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.02%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2025-68468
To remediate CVE-2025-68468, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 0.8-r25 or later
- —no fix listed
Is CVE-2025-68468 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 0.8-r25
- from 0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |