PT-2020-2143

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Videolabs libmicrodns version 0.1.0 Description A denial-of-service issue exists in the resource record-parsing functionality of libmicrodns. When parsing compressed labels in mDNS messages, the compression pointer is followed without checking...

PT-2020-2144

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Videolabs libmicrodns version 0.1.0 Description The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the microdns library of the VideoLAN VLC media player, allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code using a...

CVE-2020-6077: Out-of-bounds Read

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the message-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When parsing mDNS messages, the implementation does not properly keep track of the available data in the message, possibly leading to an out-of-bounds read that would result ...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in Videolabs libmicrodns

Claudio Bozzato of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. A specific library in the Videolabs family of software contains multiple vulnerabilities that could lead to denial of service and code execution. Videolabs is a company founded by VideoLAN members and is the...

Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0 mdns_recv return value denial-of-service vulnerability

Summary An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the message-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When parsing mDNS messages in mdnsrecv, the return value of the mdnsreadheader function is not checked, leading to an uninitialized variable usage that eventually...

Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0 resource allocation denial-of-service vulnerabilities

Summary Multiple exploitable denial-of-service vulnerabilities exist 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 exhaustio...

Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0 message-parsing bounds denial-of-service vulnerability

Summary An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the message-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When parsing mDNS messages, the implementation does not properly keep track of the available data in the message, possibly leading to an out-of-bounds read that would...

Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0 rr_decode return value remote code execution vulnerability

Summary An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the label-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When parsing compressed labels in mDNS messages, the rrdecode function’s return value is not checked, leading to a double free that could be exploited to execute arbitrary...

Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0 resource record recursive label uncompression denial-of-service vulnerability

Summary 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 attack...

Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0 TXT record RDATA-parsing denial-of-service vulnerability

Summary 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 ...