CVE-2020-6080

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 the function rr_read_RR [5] reads the current resource record, except for the RDATA section. This is read by the loop at in rr_read. For each RR type, a different function is called. When the RR type is 0x10, the function rr_read_TXT is called at [6].

Weakness classification

• CWE-401: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Primary references

• talos-cna@cisco.com — Third Party Advisory
• talos-cna@cisco.com — Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
• talos-cna@cisco.com — Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory