CVE-2021-3468

Name	CVE-2021-3468
Description	A flaw was found in avahi in versions 0.6 up to 0.8. 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, allowing a local attacker to trigger an infinite loop. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to the availability of the avahi service, which becomes unresponsive after this flaw is triggered.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
NVD severity	low
Debian Bugs	984938

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
avahi (PTS)	stretch	0.6.32-2	vulnerable
	buster	0.7-4+deb10u1	vulnerable
	bookworm, sid, bullseye	0.8-5	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
avahi	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)			984938

Notes

[bullseye] - avahi <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - avahi <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[stretch] - avahi <postponed> (Minor issue; can be fixed in next DLA)
https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/pull/330
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939614#c3