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
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10 Third Party Advisory
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
History

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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: talos

Published: 2020-03-24T20:43:17

Updated: 2022-04-19T17:35:27

Reserved: 2020-01-07T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2020-6071

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-03-24T21:15:14.067

Modified: 2022-06-03T18:17:03.483


Link: CVE-2020-6071

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