CVE Catalog

CVE-2020-6078

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
3.15%

88th percentile - higher than 88% of all known CVEs

Summary

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the message-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When parsing mDNS messages in mdns_recv, the return value of the mdns_read_header function is not checked, leading to an uninitialized variable usage that eventually results in a null pointer dereference, leading to service crash. An attacker can send a series of mDNS messages to trigger this vulnerability.

Risk Assessment

This can lead to mDNS service crash, causing denial of service. Organizations using libmicrodns are exposed to DoS attacks.

Recommendation

Update libmicrodns to the latest version that fixes this vulnerability. Monitor mDNS traffic and consider restricting access to mDNS services.

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Original NVD description (English source)

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the message-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When parsing mDNS messages in mdns_recv, the return value of the mdns_read_header function is not checked, leading to an uninitialized variable usage that eventually results in a null pointer dereference, leading to service crash. An attacker can send a series of mDNS messages to trigger this vulnerability.

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