Symlink Attack The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package avahi (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published8 May 2025
- disclosed17 Feb 2021
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 17 Feb 2021
CVE-2021-26720 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
This was deemed not a vulnerability.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack avahi-daemon-check-dns.sh in the Debian avahi package through 0.8-4 is executed as root via /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-daemon, and allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service or create arbitrary empty files via a symlink attack on files under /run/avahi-daemon. NOTE: this only affects the packaging for Debian GNU/Linux (used indirectly by SUSE), not the upstream Avahi product.
Note:
This issue is Debian-specific.