CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-6072
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-03-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-08
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-415
Description
An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the label-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When parsing compressed labels in mDNS messages, the rr_decode function's return value is not checked, leading to a double free that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code. 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-415 Double Free weakness
References
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10 Third Party Advisory
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-0995 Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4671 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10 Third Party Advisory
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-0995 Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4671 Third Party Advisory