CVE-2020-6071CWE-674

CVE-2020-6071

High · published March 25, 2020

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
3%
Percentile
84.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02504 · 84.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-674 · Uncontrolled Recursion
Published
2020-03-25T01:15Z
Affected products (2)
ProductVersionsFixed in
videolabs/libmicrodnsall versions—
debian/debian_linuxall versions—
References (6)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10 · [email protected]https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-0994 · [email protected]https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4671 · [email protected]https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-0994 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4671 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 MAR 20:43Z
    An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the resource record-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0
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