Local service crash via conflicting D-Bus publish flags
Published Apr 3, 2026 · Updated Apr 3, 2026
Reachable assertion in Avahi before 0.9-rc4 allows local users to crash avahi-daemon through a crafted D-Bus method call. The D-Bus EntryGroup AddRecord and AddService handlers accept simultaneous wide-area and multicast publish flags, which transport_flags_from_domain() treats as a fatal assertion failure. The system-bus policy permits unprivileged local users to reach the handlers; the resulting SIGABRT interrupts mDNS and DNS-SD until the daemon restarts.
Summary
What happened
Reachable assertion in Avahi before 0.9-rc4 allows local users to crash avahi-daemon through a crafted D-Bus method call. The D-Bus EntryGroup AddRecord and AddService handlers accept simultaneous wide-area and multicast publish flags, which transport_flags_from_domain() treats as a fatal assertion failure. The system-bus policy permits unprivileged local users to reach the handlers; the resulting SIGABRT interrupts mDNS and DNS-SD until the daemon restarts.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-34933
- Published
- Apr 3, 2026
- Updated
- Apr 3, 2026
- Vendor
- Avahi
- Product
- Avahi
- Classifications
- CWE-617, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Apr 3, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 3, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=< 0.9-rc4
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