Vulnerability Details CVE-2020-6071
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.006
EPSS Ranking 68.9%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
CVSS v2 Score 5.0
References
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-0994
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4671
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-0994
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4671
Products affected by CVE-2020-6071
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cpe:2.3:a:videolabs:libmicrodns:0.1.0
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0