CVE-2020-6080
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].
EPSS 0.31% · 54.6th percentile
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS | libmicrodns | 0, 0.0.7-2, 0.0.8-1 |
| Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS | vlc | 2.2.8-1, 2.2.8-2, 3.0.0~rc1-1ubuntu1 |
Exploit Intelligence
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1002 (nist-nvd)
- DSA-4671 (circl)
- GLSA-202005-10 (circl)
Timeline
- Mar 24, 2020 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jan 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 1, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 6, 2022 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-6080 third-party-advisory
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1002 third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6080 third-party-advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7239-1 vendor-advisory