CVE Catalog

CVE-2020-6072

CriticalCVSS 9.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
3.80%

90th percentile - higher than 90% of all known CVEs

Summary

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the label-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When parsing compressed labels in mDNS messages, the rr_decode function's return value is not checked, leading to a double free that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code. An attacker can send an mDNS message to trigger this vulnerability.

Risk Assessment

Remote code execution in services using libmicrodns, potentially leading to system compromise.

Recommendation

Upgrade libmicrodns to a patched version or apply available fixes.

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Original NVD description (English source)

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the label-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When parsing compressed labels in mDNS messages, the rr_decode function's return value is not checked, leading to a double free that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code. An attacker can send an mDNS message to trigger this vulnerability.

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