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CVE-2020-6079

CVE-2020-6079HIGH

n/a Videolabs — An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the resource allocation handling of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0.

  AV  AC  PR  UI  S  C  I  A   CVSS    EPSS   %ile   KEV
   N   L   N   N  U  N  N  H    7.5   .0315   87.7     —

AFFECTED
  Product    Versions                       Fixed
  Videolabs  Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0 –  —

TIMELINE
  Jan 7   Reserved by talos
  Mar 24  Published (CNA: talos)
  Oct 8   EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2020-6079 (Videolabs). Public exploit reference added.

CWE-401 · CNA: talos · CVSS v3.1 · 3 references · NVD status: Modified

Description

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the resource allocation handling of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When encountering errors while parsing mDNS messages, some allocated data is not freed, possibly leading to a denial-of-service condition via resource exhaustion. An attacker can send one mDNS message repeatedly to trigger this vulnerability through decoding of the domain name performed by rr_decode.

Lifecycle

Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
Date	Event	Detail
January 7, 2020	Reserved	Reserved by talos
March 24, 2020	Published	Published (CNA: talos)
October 8, 2026	EXPLOIT PUBLISHED	EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2020-6079 (Videolabs). Public exploit reference added.

Affected

Affected products and packages — 1 row
Vendor	Product / Package	Ecosystem	Version introduced	Fixed
n/a	Videolabs	—	Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0	—

Weaknesses

CWE-401

References (3)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10 [Third Party Advisory]
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1002 [Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory]
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4671 [Third Party Advisory]

Authoritative record: CVE-2020-6079 at cve.org

Weaknesses: CWE-401

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