CVE-2020-6071
Published: 24 March 2020
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.
Priority
Status
Package | Release | Status |
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libmicrodns Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
impish |
Does not exist
|
groovy |
Does not exist
|
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lunar |
Does not exist
|
|
bionic |
Needs triage
|
|
eoan |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
|
focal |
Does not exist
|
|
hirsute |
Does not exist
|
|
jammy |
Does not exist
|
|
kinetic |
Does not exist
|
|
trusty |
Does not exist
|
|
upstream |
Needs triage
|
|
xenial |
Does not exist
|
|
mantic |
Does not exist
|
|
vlc Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
kinetic |
Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
|
bionic |
Needs triage
|
|
focal |
Needs triage
|
|
groovy |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
|
upstream |
Needs triage
|
|
trusty |
Ignored
(end of standard support)
|
|
xenial |
Needs triage
|
|
hirsute |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
|
impish |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
|
lunar |
Needs triage
|
|
jammy |
Needs triage
|
|
mantic |
Needs triage
|
Severity score breakdown
Parameter | Value |
---|---|
Base score | 7.5 |
Attack vector | Network |
Attack complexity | Low |
Privileges required | None |
User interaction | None |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | None |
Integrity impact | None |
Availability impact | High |
Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |