CVE-2020-6071

Name
CVE-2020-6071
Description
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Exploit https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-0994
DEBIAN https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4671
GENTOO https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:videolabs:libmicrodns:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* libmicrodns == None == 0.1.0

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
vlc edge-community 3.0.9.2-r0 None fixed
vlc 3.22-community 3.0.9.2-r0 None fixed
vlc 3.21-community 3.0.9.2-r0 None fixed
vlc 3.20-community 3.0.9.2-r0 None fixed
vlc 3.19-community 3.0.9.2-r0 None fixed
vlc 3.18-community 3.0.9.2-r0 None fixed
vlc 3.17-community 3.0.9.2-r0 None fixed