CVE-2020-6079 (GCVE-0-2020-6079)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-03-24 20:49
Modified
2026-10-08 21:13
Severity ?
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EPSS score ?
CWE
- denial of service
Summary
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 decoding of the domain name performed by rr_decode.
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