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.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.5 · videolabs, debianNVD modified 2026-10-08 22:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 2
cpe:2.3:a:videolabs:libmicrodns:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 6
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10 Third Party Advisory
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-0994 Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4671 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-10 Third Party Advisory
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-0994 Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4671 Third Party Advisory