CVE-2020-6073Integer Overflow or Wraparound in Libmicrodns

Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 41.15%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedMar 24
Latest updateJan 28

Description

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the TXT record-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When parsing the RDATA section in a TXT record in mDNS messages, multiple integer overflows can be triggered, 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 Packages3 packages

Debianvideolabs/libmicrodns< 0.2.0-1+1
Debianvideolan/vlc_media_player< 3.0.8-4+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
OSV
libmicrodns vulnerabilities2025-01-28
GHSA
GHSA-w68p-ggr2-rxfj: An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the TXT record-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 02022-05-24
OSV
CVE-2020-6073: An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the TXT record-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 02020-03-24
CVEList
CVE-2020-6073: An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the TXT record-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 02020-03-24

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
libmicrodns vulnerabilities2025-01-28
Debian
CVE-2020-6073: libmicrodns - An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the TXT record-parsing ...2020
CVE-2020-6073 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound | cvebase