CVE-2026-24401
Essential information
- Published
- 24/01/2026 02:15
- Modified
- 24/01/2026 02:15
- Author
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- Creator
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- CVSS
- 6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1)
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
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- CVSS vector
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H—
CVSS metrics
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- Authentication
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- Confidentiality impact
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- Integrity impact
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- Availability impact
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- Attack vector
- NETWORK
- Attack complexity
- LOW
- Privileges required
- NONE
- User interaction
- REQUIRED
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality impact
- NONE
- Integrity impact
- NONE
- Availability impact
- HIGH
- Exploit code maturity
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- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- Confidentiality (V)
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- Confidentiality (S)
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- Integrity (V)
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- Integrity (S)
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- Availability (V)
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- Availability (S)
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Description
Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network via the mDNS/DNS-SD protocol suite. In versions 0.9rc2 and below, avahi-daemon can be crashed via a segmentation fault by sending an unsolicited mDNS response containing a recursive CNAME record, where the alias and canonical name point to the same domain (e.g., "h.local" as a CNAME for "h.local"). This causes unbounded recursion in the lookup_handle_cname function, leading to stack exhaustion. The vulnerability affects record browsers where AVAHI_LOOKUP_USE_MULTICAST is set explicitly, which includes record browsers created by resolvers used by nss-mdns. This issue is patched in commit 78eab31128479f06e30beb8c1cbf99dd921e2524.
NVD status
- Status
- Received — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
- Source
- [email protected]
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| avahi / avahi | cpe:2.3:a:avahi:avahi:0.9rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |