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DEBIAN-CVE-2020-6080

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-6080 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

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].

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

Timeline

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