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An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 29, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the resource record-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When parsing compressed labels in mDNS messages, the compression pointer is followed without checking for recursion, leading to a denial of service. An attacker can send an mDNS message to trigger this vulnerability.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 24, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.247%
(65th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-6071

GHSA ID

GHSA-g97q-39hw-52p8

Source code

No known source code

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