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CVE-2020-6071

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CVE-2020-6071

Published: Mar 24, 2020

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.5

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.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

Videolabs

affected
Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

DSA-4671
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
GLSA-202005-10
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_GENTOO

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