Critical severity9.8OSV Advisory· Published Mar 24, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-6072
CVE-2020-6072
Description
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.
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Affected products
4cpe:2.3:a:videolabs:libmicrodns:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:videolabs:libmicrodns:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: 0.0.1, 0.0.10, 0.0.2, …
- (no CPE)range: =0.1.0
Patches
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References
3- talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-0995nvdExploitTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4671nvdThird Party Advisory
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