CVE-2023-38473: Avahi

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability was found in Avahi. A reachable assertion exists in the avahi_alternative_host_name() function.

Affected products

• Avahi Avahi: before 0.9 (fixed in 0.9)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2023-11-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.