CVE-2020-6071

High

Description

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.5
Exploit probability—
ProductVideolabs Libmicrodns
PublishedMar 24, 2020
First seenMar 24, 2020

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
videolabs libmicrodns0.1.0—
debian debian_linux9.0—

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