Vulnerability in Videolabs Libmicrodns

CVE-2020-6080

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].

EPSS: 0.024 (82.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-6080?
CVE-2020-6080 is a high-severity vulnerability in Videolabs Libmicrodns, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-03-24.
How severe is CVE-2020-6080?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.