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].
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | — | Upgrade to the latest version of Arch Linux | Jul 11, 2025 | Mar 24, 2020 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade libmicrodnsUpgrade vlc | May 4, 2020 | Mar 24, 2020 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade net-libs/libmicrodns. | Jun 15, 2020 | Mar 24, 2020 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade libmicrodns0 (Ubuntu Pro) | Jan 30, 2025 | Mar 24, 2020 |
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