Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting vlc package, versions <3.0.8-4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-VLC-567950
  • 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)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 vlc to version 3.0.8-4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream vlc package and not the vlc package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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