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.

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Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4671-1 vlc security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-27225 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7239-1 libmicrodns vulnerabilities
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: talos

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Updated: 2024-08-04T08:47:41.013Z

Reserved: 2020-01-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-6071

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Status : Modified

Published: 2020-03-24T21:15:14.067

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:35:02.020

Link: CVE-2020-6071

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