Reachable Assertion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package rhcos  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-RHCOS-14919342
  • published13 Jan 2026
  • disclosed12 Jan 2026

Introduced: 12 Jan 2026

CVE-2025-68471  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-617  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rhcos package and not the rhcos package as distributed by RHEL.

Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network via the mDNS/DNS-SD protocol suite. In 0.9-rc2 and earlier, avahi-daemon can be crashed by sending 2 unsolicited announcements with CNAME resource records 2 seconds apart.