| Name | CVE-2020-6079 |
| Description | An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the resource allocation handling of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When encountering errors while parsing mDNS messages, some allocated data is not freed, possibly leading to a denial-of-service condition via resource exhaustion. An attacker can send one mDNS message repeatedly to trigger this vulnerability through decoding of the domain name performed by rr_decode. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-4671-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| vlc (PTS) | buster | 3.0.17.4-0+deb10u1 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 3.0.17.4-0+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 3.0.18-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.0.18-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 3.0.18-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| libmicrodns | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
| vlc | source | jessie | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| vlc | source | stretch | 3.0.10-0+deb9u1 | | DSA-4671-1 | |
| vlc | source | buster | 3.0.10-0+deb10u1 | | DSA-4671-1 | |
| vlc | source | (unstable) | 3.0.8-4 | | | |
Notes
[jessie] - vlc <end-of-life> (Not supported in jessie LTS)
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1002
These were addressed on the source level in 3.0.9, but 3.0.8-4 disables the plugin