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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-6071: libmicrodns: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-6071: libmicrodns: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/24/2020
Created
06/16/2020
Added
06/15/2020
Modified
06/15/2020

Description

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the resource record-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When parsing compressed labels in mDNS messages, the compression pointer is followed without checking for recursion, leading to a denial of service. An attacker can send an mDNS message to trigger this vulnerability.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-libs-libmicrodns

References

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