CVE-2020-6080

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: March 24, 2020 at 08:50 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:22 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsDebian LinuxLibmicrodns

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists 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 this vulnerability through the function rr_read_RR [5] reads the current resource record, except for the RDATA section. This is read by the loop at in rr_read. For each RR type, a different function is called. When the RR type is 0x10, the function rr_read_TXT is called at [6].

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

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References (3)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10
x_refsource_MISCExploitTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1002
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4671

CVSS

7.5HIGHtalos
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-401

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