{"id":"CVE-2026-24401","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-24401","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T10:35:34.704Z","title":"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…","description":"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, which is part of version 0.9-rc3.","published":"2026-01-24T02:15:49.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-23T16:16:52.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security-advisories@github.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-674"],"affected":["avahi/avahi"],"epss":{"score":0.00373,"percentile":0.31036,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.37%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/avahi/avahi/commit/78eab31128479f06e30beb8c1cbf99dd921e2524","tags":["Patch"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/avahi/avahi/issues/501","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/avahi/avahi/security/advisories/GHSA-h4vp-5m8j-f6w3","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24401","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}