How severe is CVE-2021-3468?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of MEDIUM with a CVSS score of 5.5 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2021-3468?

This is classified as CWE-835, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2021-3468 - MEDIUM Severity | CVSS 5.5

Vulnerability 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.

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