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DEBIAN-CVE-2020-6080

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the resource allocation handling of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When encountering errors whi...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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 the function rr_read_RR [5] reads the current resource record, except for the RDATA section. This is read by the loop at in rr_read. For each RR type, a different function is called. When the RR type is 0x10, the function rr_read_TXT is called at [6].

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:13 libmicrodns
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.2.0-1"}]}]
Debian:14 libmicrodns
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.2.0-1"}]}]
Debian:12 vlc
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.0.8-4"}]}]
Debian:13 vlc
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.0.8-4"}]}]
Debian:14 vlc
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.0.8-4"}]}]

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