Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 24, 2020· Updated Aug 4, 2024
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.
Affected products
1Patches
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References
3- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4671mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1002mitrex_refsource_MISC
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