CVE-2020-6079

critical

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`0.1.2-1`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.2.0-1`
sid	Fixed	`0.2.0-1`
forky	Fixed	`0.2.0-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`3.0.8-4`
bookworm	Fixed	`3.0.8-4`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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