Security Advisory
CVE-2020-6072
9.8
CRITICAL
Vulnerability Description
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 rr_decode function's return value is not checked, leading to a double free that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code. An attacker can send an mDNS message to trigger this vulnerability.
Published Date
March 24, 2020
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory