CVE-2020-6078 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in the message-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0, affecting Debian and Videolabs libmicrodns. An attacker can trigger a service crash by sending specially crafted mDNS messages due to an unchecked return value leading to a null pointer dereference. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, resulting in a complete loss of availability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, though it has received minimal 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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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