High severity · published Mar 24, 2020
CVE-2020-6080
An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the resource allocation handling of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0
7.5
CVSS
2.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the resource allocation handling of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When encountering errors while parsing mDNS messages, some allocated data is not freed, possibly leading to a denial-of-service condition via resource exhaustion. An attacker can send one mDNS message repeatedly to trigger this vulnerability through the function rr_read_RR [5] reads the current resource record, except for the RDATA section. This is read by the loop at in rr_read. For each RR type, a different function is called. When the RR type is 0x10, the function rr_read_TXT is called at [6].
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.4% · higher than 84% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
LI
Libmicrodns · Videolabs
0.1.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6080
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6080
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10
Exploit
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1002
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4671
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