Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-6080  

Multiple exploitable denial-of-service vulnerabilities exist 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 these vulnerabilities.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

Multiple exploitable denial-of-service vulnerabilities exist 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 these vulnerabilities.

AVG-1136 libmicrodns 0.1.0-1 Critical Vulnerable

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1002
https://github.com/videolabs/libmicrodns/commit/9768bdbeb8ea6b7849a97af4362d1b5184352cee