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CVE-2023-1981

Published: 12 April 2023

A vulnerability was found in the avahi library. This flaw allows an unprivileged user to make a dbus call, causing the avahi daemon to crash.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
avahi
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (0.7-3.1ubuntu1.3+esm1)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
focal
Released (0.7-4ubuntu7.2)
jammy
Released (0.8-5ubuntu5.1)
kinetic
Released (0.8-6ubuntu1.22.10.1)
lunar
Released (0.8-6ubuntu1.23.04.1)
trusty
Released (0.6.31-4ubuntu1.3+esm2)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
upstream Pending
(0.9)
xenial
Released (0.6.32~rc+dfsg-1ubuntu2.3+esm2)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/commit/a2696da2f2c50ac43b6c4903f72290d5c3fa9f6f

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H