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CVSSv2

CVE-2020-6071

Published: 24/03/2020 Updated: 03/06/2022
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

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.

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videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0

debian debian linux 9.0

Vendor Advisories

Multiple security issues were discovered in the microdns plugin of the VLC media player, which could result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code via malicious mDNS packets For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 3010-0+deb9u1 This update disables the microdns plugin For ...
An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the resource record-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 010 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 ...