CVE-2020-6071 is a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0 and Debian distributions utilizing it. The flaw lies in the resource record-parsing functionality, specifically when handling compressed labels in mDNS messages, where a recursive compression pointer leads to a system crash. This vulnerability can be triggered remotely by an unauthenticated attacker sending a specially crafted mDNS message, resulting in a complete denial of service (CVSS 7.5). While no active exploits or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) are currently known, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:videolabs:libmicrodns:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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