CVE-2020-6077Out-of-bounds Read in Libmicrodns

CWE-125Out-of-bounds Read6 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 49.52%
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 message-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When parsing mDNS messages, the implementation does not properly keep track of the available data in the message, possibly leading to an out-of-bounds read that would result in 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

3
GHSA
GHSA-pmrj-hfp3-5wh4: An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the message-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 02022-05-24
CVEList
CVE-2020-6077: An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the message-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 02020-03-24
OSV
CVE-2020-6077: An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the message-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 02020-03-24

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
libmicrodns vulnerabilities2025-01-28
Debian
CVE-2020-6077: libmicrodns - An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the message-parsing fun...2020
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