CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-6071

7.5 HIGH Published 2020-03-24 Modified 2026-10-08 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-03-24
Last modified
2026-10-08
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-674

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.

Affected configurations

• videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0 • debian debian linux 9.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion weakness

References