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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-6080: libmicrodns: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-6080: 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 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].

Solution(s)

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

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