CVE-2020-6071 — Uncontrolled Recursion in Libmicrodns
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 45.44%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 24
Latest updateJan 28
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages4 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0
🔴Vulnerability Details
4GHSA▶
GHSA-g97q-39hw-52p8: An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the resource record-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0↗2022-05-24
CVEList▶
CVE-2020-6071: An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the resource record-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0↗2020-03-24
OSV▶
CVE-2020-6071: An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the resource record-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0↗2020-03-24