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.

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Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4671-1 vlc security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-27227 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7239-1 libmicrodns vulnerabilities
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Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:30:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: talos

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-08T21:13:51.553Z

Reserved: 2020-01-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-6073

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T08:47:40.990Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-03-24T21:15:14.237

Modified: 2026-10-08T22:17:01.683

Link: CVE-2020-6073

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