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.
References
Link | Resource |
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https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-0994 | 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 |
Information
Published : 2020-03-24 14:15
Updated : 2022-06-03 11:17
NVD link : CVE-2020-6071
Mitre link : CVE-2020-6071
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CWE
CWE-674
Uncontrolled Recursion
Products Affected
videolabs
- libmicrodns
debian
- debian_linux