vulnerability

Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2021-3468)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 2, 2021
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

A security issue was found in avahi. The event used to signal the termination of the client connection on the avahi Unix socket is not correctly handled in the client_work function. Denial of service can be triggered by writing long lines to /run/avahi-daemon/socket resulting in an unresponsive busy-loop of the daemon.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest
Title
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