CVE-2026-24401CWE-674

Avahi has Uncontrolled Recursion in lookup_handle_cname function

Medium · published January 24, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
21.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00303 · 21.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-674 · Uncontrolled Recursion
Published
2026-01-24T01:25Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 JAN 01:25Z
    Avahi has Uncontrolled Recursion in lookup_handle_cname function
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