CVE-2020-6080

HIGH

libmicrodns 0.1.0 - Denial of Service via mDNS Message Parsing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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].

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4671
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10
Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1002

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0238
EPSS Percentile 81.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
videolabs/libmicrodns 0.1.0
Published Mar 24, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026