CVE-2006-5461: Avahi

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Avahi before 0.6.15 does not verify the sender identity of netlink messages to ensure that they come from the kernel instead of another process, which allows local users to spoof network changes to Avahi.

Affected products

• Avahi Avahi: up to and including 0.6.14

Published 2006-11-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.