CVE-2020-6071

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

7.5

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.613

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
vlc security update(DSA-4671-1) vlc_3.0.10-0+deb9u1_i386.deb	Linux
vlc security update(DSA-4671-1) vlc_3.0.10-0+deb9u1_amd64.deb	Linux
vlc security update(DSA-4671-1) vlc_3.0.10-0+deb10u1_amd64.deb	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234