Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libmicrodns package, versions <0.2.0-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.92% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-LIBMICRODNS-7545420
  • published20 Jul 2024
  • disclosed24 Mar 2020

Introduced: 24 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-6077  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable libmicrodns to version 0.2.0-1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the message-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When parsing mDNS messages, the implementation does not properly keep track of the available data in the message, possibly leading to an out-of-bounds read that would result in a denial of service. An attacker can send an mDNS message to trigger this vulnerability.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1