DEBIAN-CVE-2020-6079
Record from OSV · Published March 24, 2020
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 decoding of the domain name performed by rr_decode.
Fixed versions
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| Package | Ecosystem | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| vlc | Debian:12 | 3.0.8-4 |
| vlc | Debian:13 | 3.0.8-4 |
| libmicrodns | Debian:14 | 0.2.0-1 |
| libmicrodns | Debian:13 | 0.2.0-1 |
| vlc | Debian:14 | 3.0.8-4 |
Risk scores
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | vlc | 0 |
| Debian:13 | vlc | 0 |
| Debian:14 | libmicrodns | 0 |
| Debian:13 | libmicrodns | 0 |
| Debian:14 | vlc | 0 |
Timeline
- Mar 24, 2020 CVE Published
- Oct 26, 2026 CVE Updated
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