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DEBIAN-CVE-2020-6078

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-6078 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the message-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When parsing mDNS messages in mdns_recv, the return value of the mdns_read_header function is not checked, leading to an uninitialized variable usage that eventually results in a null pointer dereference, leading to service crash. An attacker can send a series of mDNS messages to trigger this vulnerability.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:12vlc0, 0, 0
Debian:11vlc0, 0, 0
Debian:13libmicrodns0, 0, 0
Debian:13vlc0, 0, 0
Debian:14libmicrodns0, 0, 0
Debian:14vlc0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Mar 24, 2020 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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