Security Advisory

CVE-2021-3502

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-05-07 11:46:21
Last updated 2024-08-03 16:53:17
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

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.