CVE-2020-6078 (GCVE-0-2020-6078)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-03-24 20:39 – Updated: 2024-08-04 08:47
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the message-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When parsing mDNS messages in mdns_recv, the return value of the mdns_read_header function is not checked, leading to an uninitialized variable usage that eventually results in a null pointer dereference, leading to service crash. An attacker can send a series of mDNS messages to trigger this vulnerability.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CWE
- denial of service
Assigner
References
3 references
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|---|---|
| https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4671 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_repor… | x_refsource_MISC |
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