CVE Catalog

CVE-2020-6071

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
2.50%

84th percentile - higher than 84% of all known CVEs

Summary

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.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can send a crafted mDNS message to remotely crash a service using libmicrodns. This results in service unavailability.

Recommendation

Update libmicrodns to a version newer than 0.1.0. Restrict access to mDNS services from untrusted networks.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS