Uncontrolled Recursion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libmicrodns  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-LIBMICRODNS-561326
  • published26 Mar 2020
  • disclosed24 Mar 2020

Introduced: 24 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-6071  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libmicrodns package and not the libmicrodns package as distributed by Debian.

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.