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."
*** Bug 798117 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
CVE-2021-3502: A flaw was found in avahi 0.8-5. A reachable assertion is present in avahi_s_host_name_resolver_start function allowing a local attacker to crash the avahi service by requesting hostname resolutions through the avahi socket or dbus methods for invalid hostnames. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to the service availability. Patch: https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/commit/fd482a74625b8db8547b8cfca3ee3d3c6c721423
CVE-2021-36217: Avahi 0.8 allows a local denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) against avahi-daemon via the D-Bus interface or a "ping .local" command. Unreleased patch: https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/commit/9d31939e55280a733d930b15ac9e4dda4497680c
