CVE-2020-6071
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the resource record-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When parsing compressed labels in mDNS messages, the compression pointer is followed without checking for recursion, leading to a denial of service. An attacker can send an mDNS message to trigger this vulnerability.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | Videolabs | Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0 | affected |
Weaknesses
- denial of service
ADP Enrichment
CVE Program Container
Additional References
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4671
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-0994
References
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4671
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-0994
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