CVE-2020-6073 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10 https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-0996 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4671

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5