debian · CVE-2020-6071

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:00:17 GMT

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CVE-2020-6071 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 2 source packages (libmicrodns, vlc), 8 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 8.

Description:

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.

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