Reachable Assertion Affecting avahi package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.01% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-AVAHI-14914752
  • published13 Jan 2026
  • disclosed12 Jan 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Jan 2026

CVE-2025-68468  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-617  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Reachable Assertion in the lookup_multicast_callback function. An attacker can cause a crash by sending unsolicited announcements containing CNAME resource records that point to resource records with short TTLs, which, upon expiration, trigger the failure.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1