CVE-2021-3502

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: May 7, 2021
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Apr 15, 2021

Description

A flaw was found in avahi 0.8-5. A reachable assertion is present in avahi_s_host_name_resolver_start function allowing a local attacker to crash the avahi service by requesting hostname resolutions through the avahi socket or dbus methods for invalid hostnames. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to the service availability.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-617 >CWE-476

Affected Products

Product	Versions
avahin/a	0.8-5Affected

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1946914
https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/338

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