CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-3468

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Jun 02, 2021 | Modified: Jun 22, 2023
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
6.2 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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.

Weakness

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Avahi Avahi 0.6 (including) 0.8 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat avahi-0:0.7-21.el8_9.1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat avahi-0:0.7-21.el8_9.1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support RedHat avahi-0:0.7-20.el8_6.3 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support RedHat avahi-0:0.7-20.el8_8.4 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RedHat avahi-0:0.8-15.el9 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RedHat avahi-0:0.8-15.el9 *
Avahi Ubuntu bionic *
Avahi Ubuntu devel *
Avahi Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Avahi Ubuntu focal *
Avahi Ubuntu groovy *
Avahi Ubuntu hirsute *
Avahi Ubuntu impish *
Avahi Ubuntu jammy *
Avahi Ubuntu precise/esm *
Avahi Ubuntu trusty *
Avahi Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Avahi Ubuntu upstream *
Avahi Ubuntu xenial *

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