High severity7.5OSV Advisory· Published Mar 24, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-6071
CVE-2020-6071
Description
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.
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Affected products
20.0.1, 0.0.10, 0.0.2, …+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: 0.0.1, 0.0.10, 0.0.2, …
- (no CPE)range: <0.1.0
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
3- talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-0994nvdExploitTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4671nvdThird Party Advisory
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