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CVE-2023-1981

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-05-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

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.

Affected products

• avahi: 0.7-20
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 37
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1981
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185911
• https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/375
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1981
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185911
• https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/375
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00011.html

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