vulnerability
Ubuntu: USN-7239-1 (CVE-2020-6073): libmicrodns vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Mar 24, 2020 | Jan 30, 2025 | Mar 27, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 24, 2020
Added
Jan 30, 2025
Modified
Mar 27, 2026
Description
An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the TXT record-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When parsing the RDATA section in a TXT record in mDNS messages, multiple integer overflows can be triggered, leading to a denial of service. An attacker can send an mDNS message to trigger this vulnerability.
Solution
ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libmicrodns0
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