CVE-2021-3468
avahi: Local DoS by event-busy-loop from writing long lines to /run/avahi-daemon/socket
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · March 10, 2021
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
A flaw was found in avahi. 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.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 6.2CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')