[scarthgap][PATCH] avahi: fixes CVE-2025-68471

[scarthgap][PATCH] avahi: fixes CVE-2025-68471

[amaury.couderc]

From: Amaury Couderc <amaury.couderc@est.tech>

avahi: fix DoS bug by changing assert to return

Signed-off-by: Amaury Couderc <amaury.couderc@est.tech>
---
 meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/avahi_0.8.bb  |  1 +
 .../avahi/files/CVE-2025-68471.patch          | 36 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/files/CVE-2025-68471.patch

diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/avahi_0.8.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/avahi_0.8.bb
index 7930bd3037..ffda85c0e7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/avahi_0.8.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/avahi_0.8.bb
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ SRC_URI = "${GITHUB_BASE_URI}/download/v${PV}/avahi-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://CVE-2023-38473.patch \
            file://CVE-2024-52616.patch \
            file://CVE-2024-52615.patch \
+           file://CVE-2025-68471.patch \
            "
 
 GITHUB_BASE_URI = "https://github.com/avahi/avahi/releases/"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/files/CVE-2025-68471.patch b/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/files/CVE-2025-68471.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..210565cdd6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/files/CVE-2025-68471.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+From 4e84c1d6eb2f54d1643bd7ce62817c722ca36d25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Hugo Muis <198191869+friendlyhugo@users.noreply.github.com>
+Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 18:06:24 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] core: fix DoS bug by changing assert to return
+
+Closes https://github.com/avahi/avahi/issues/678
+
+CVE: CVE-2025-68471
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport
+[https://github.com/avahi/avahi/commit/9c6eb53bf2e290aed84b1f207e3ce35c54cc0aa1]
+
+Signed-off-by: Amaury Couderc <amaury.couderc@est.tech>
+---
+ avahi-core/browse.c | 5 ++++-
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/avahi-core/browse.c b/avahi-core/browse.c
+index 2941e57..86e4432 100644
+--- a/avahi-core/browse.c
++++ b/avahi-core/browse.c
+@@ -320,7 +320,10 @@ static int lookup_start(AvahiSRBLookup *l) {
+     assert(l);
+ 
+     assert(!(l->flags & AVAHI_LOOKUP_USE_WIDE_AREA) != !(l->flags & AVAHI_LOOKUP_USE_MULTICAST));
+-    assert(!l->wide_area && !l->multicast);
++    if (l->wide_area || l->multicast) {
++        /* Avoid starting a duplicate lookup */
++        return 0;
++    }
+ 
+     if (l->flags & AVAHI_LOOKUP_USE_WIDE_AREA) {
+ 
+-- 
+2.43.0
+
-- 
2.52.0

Re: [OE-core] [scarthgap][PATCH] avahi: fixes CVE-2025-68471

[Yoann Congal]

On Fri Jan 23, 2026 at 11:35 AM CET, Amaury Couderc via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> From: Amaury Couderc <amaury.couderc@est.tech>
>
> avahi: fix DoS bug by changing assert to return
>
> Signed-off-by: Amaury Couderc <amaury.couderc@est.tech>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/avahi_0.8.bb  |  1 +
>  .../avahi/files/CVE-2025-68471.patch          | 36 +++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 37 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/files/CVE-2025-68471.patch

Hello,

Same as the CVE-2025-68468 patch: the fix needs to be merged to master and
whinlatter first before getting merged on scarthgap.

Regards,

-- 
Yoann Congal
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