CVE-2020-6079

HIGH

Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0 - DoS

Title source: llm

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 decoding of the domain name performed by rr_decode.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0031
EPSS Percentile 53.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-401
Status published

Affected Products (3)

videolabs/libmicrodns
debian/debian_linux
debian/debian_linux

Timeline

Published Mar 24, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026