CVE-2023-1981

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: May 26, 2023
Updated: Nov 3, 2025
Reserved: Apr 11, 2023

Description

A vulnerability was found in the avahi library. This flaw allows an unprivileged user to make a dbus call, causing the avahi daemon to crash.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-400

Affected Products

Product	Versions
avahin/a	avahi-0.7-20Affected

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1981
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185911
https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/375
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00011.html

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