vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-7239-1 (CVE-2020-6079): libmicrodns vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 24, 2020
Added
Jan 30, 2025
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

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 decoding of the domain name performed by rr_decode.

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libmicrodns0
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