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high 7.5

CVE-2020-6073 json

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the TXT record-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0.

published 6y ago modified last mo. also EUVD-2020-27227

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.5%
EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • vlc Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.0.8-4
  • libmicrodns Debian 14, Debian 13 0.2.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-6073

  • vlc Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1+esm3
  • libmicrodns Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 0.0.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-6073

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • vlc Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +11 more 3.0.9.2-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2020-6073

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • libmicrodns Arch Linux 0.1.2-1

arch linux advisories AVG-1136

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last mo.

Exploit prediction

2.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • talosintelligence.com https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-0996 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • n/a Videolabs

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

Sources

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