CVE-2020-6073

high

Description

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the TXT record-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When parsing the RDATA section in a TXT record in mDNS messages, multiple integer overflows can be triggered, 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-2020-0996

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-03-24

Updated: 2022-06-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High