high7.5
CVE-2020-6071
An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the resource record-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0.
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Videolabs | Libmicrodns | Version 0.1.0 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Version 9.0 |