Nixpkgs security tracker

Untriaged

Permalink CVE-2026-24401

6.5 MEDIUM

CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
User Interaction (UI): Required (R)
Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
Confidentiality (C): None (N)
Integrity (I): None (N)
Availability (A): High (H)
Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
Modified User Interaction (MUI): Required (R)
Modified Confidentiality (MC): None (N)
Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
Modified Integrity (MI): None (N)
Modified Availability (MA): High (H)

created 4 months ago Activity log

Created suggestion 4 months ago

Avahi has Uncontrolled Recursion in lookup_handle_cname function

Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network via the mDNS/DNS-SD protocol suite. In versions 0.9rc2 and below, avahi-daemon can be crashed via a segmentation fault by sending an unsolicited mDNS response containing a recursive CNAME record, where the alias and canonical name point to the same domain (e.g., "h.local" as a CNAME for "h.local"). This causes unbounded recursion in the lookup_handle_cname function, leading to stack exhaustion. The vulnerability affects record browsers where AVAHI_LOOKUP_USE_MULTICAST is set explicitly, which includes record browsers created by resolvers used by nss-mdns. This issue is patched in commit 78eab31128479f06e30beb8c1cbf99dd921e2524.