CVE-2020-6079

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

Videolabs

CVSS v3.1 NVD

7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0 NVD

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

3.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 88th percentile

Published

2020-03-24

Updated

2026-10-08

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1002

Security advisories

• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4671

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry