CVE-2020-6080

Published Mar 24, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 2.4% KEV · Not listed
Description
An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the resource allocation handling of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When encountering errors while parsing mDNS messages, some allocated data is not freed, possibly leading to a denial-of-service condition via resource exhaustion. An attacker can send one mDNS message repeatedly to trigger this vulnerability through the function rr_read_RR [5] reads the current resource record, except for the RDATA section. This is read by the loop at in rr_read. For each RR type, a different function is called. When the RR type is 0x10, the function rr_read_TXT is called at [6].

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Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4671-1 vlc security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-27234 An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the resource allocation handling of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When encountering errors while parsing mDNS messages, some allocated data is not freed, possibly leading to a denial-of-service condition via resource exhaustion. An attacker can send one mDNS message repeatedly to trigger this vulnerability through the function rr_read_RR [5] reads the current resource record, except for the RDATA section. This is read by the loop at in rr_read. For each RR type, a different function is called. When the RR type is 0x10, the function rr_read_TXT is called at [6].
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7239-1 libmicrodns vulnerabilities
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
talos
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 8:47 AM
Reserved
Jan 7, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 24, 2020, 9:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:22 AM