Detections
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CVE-2020-6071
high
Description
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.
References
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4671
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-0994