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UBUNTU-CVE-2020-6080 (CVE-2020-6080)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2020-03-24 21:15 – Updated: 2026-04-22 07:39 – Source website
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Details

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].


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    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "libmicrodns0",
            "binary_version": "0.0.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS",
        "name": "libmicrodns",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/libmicrodns@0.0.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1?arch=source\u0026distro=esm-apps/bionic"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
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            },
            {
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            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "0.0.7-2",
        "0.0.8-1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "libvlc-bin",
            "binary_version": "3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1+esm3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libvlc5",
            "binary_version": "3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1+esm3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libvlccore9",
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          },
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          },
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vlc-data",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vlc-l10n",
            "binary_version": "3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1+esm3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vlc-plugin-access-extra",
            "binary_version": "3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1+esm3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vlc-plugin-base",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vlc-plugin-fluidsynth",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vlc-plugin-jack",
            "binary_version": "3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1+esm3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vlc-plugin-notify",
            "binary_version": "3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1+esm3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vlc-plugin-qt",
            "binary_version": "3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1+esm3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vlc-plugin-samba",
            "binary_version": "3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1+esm3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vlc-plugin-skins2",
            "binary_version": "3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1+esm3"
          },
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            "binary_name": "vlc-plugin-svg",
            "binary_version": "3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1+esm3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vlc-plugin-video-output",
            "binary_version": "3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1+esm3"
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          {
            "binary_name": "vlc-plugin-video-splitter",
            "binary_version": "3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1+esm3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vlc-plugin-visualization",
            "binary_version": "3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1+esm3"
          },
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            "binary_name": "vlc-plugin-zvbi",
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        "name": "vlc",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/vlc@3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1+esm3?arch=source\u0026distro=esm-apps/bionic"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
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              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1+esm3"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "2.2.6-6",
        "2.2.6-6build1",
        "2.2.7-1",
        "2.2.8-1",
        "2.2.8-1ubuntu4",
        "2.2.8-2",
        "3.0.0~rc1-1ubuntu1",
        "3.0.0~rc1-1ubuntu3",
        "3.0.0~rc2-1ubuntu1",
        "3.0.0~rc2-2ubuntu1",
        "3.0.0~rc2-2ubuntu2",
        "3.0.0~rc4-1ubuntu1",
        "3.0.0~rc7-2ubuntu1",
        "3.0.0~rc8-1ubuntu1",
        "3.0.0-1ubuntu1",
        "3.0.1-1ubuntu5",
        "3.0.1-2ubuntu1",
        "3.0.1-2ubuntu2",
        "3.0.1-3",
        "3.0.1-3build1",
        "3.0.2-0ubuntu0.1",
        "3.0.3-1-1ubuntu1",
        "3.0.4-1ubuntu0.2",
        "3.0.7.1-0ubuntu18.04.1",
        "3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1",
        "3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1+esm1",
        "3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1+esm2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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].",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2020-6080",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:39:18Z",
  "published": "2020-03-24T21:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-6080"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1002"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6080"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7239-1"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "USN-7239-1"
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2020-6080"
  ]
}



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