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High severity7.5OSV Advisory· Published Mar 24, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-6079

CVE-2020-6079

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.

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Affected products

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  • Videolabs/Libmicrodns3 versions
    cpe: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
  • Debian/linux2 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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