CVE-2020-6071
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Mar 24, 2020
- Updated
- Oct 8, 2026
- Reserved
- Jan 7, 2020
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | talos |
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Videolabsn/a |
|
References
- DSA-4671vendor-advisory
- GLSA-202005-10vendor-advisory
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-0994
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