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libmicrodns vulnerabilities

Published Jan 28, 2025 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

It was discovered that libmicrodns could recursively follow the same
compression pointer, leading to an infinite loop. An attacker could
possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-6071)

It was discovered that libmicrodns did not check the return value of the
rr_decode function, which could lead to a double free. An attacker could
possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-6072)

It was discovered that libmicrodns incorrectly handled certain inputs,
which could lead to an integer overflow. An attacker could possibly use
this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-6073)

It was discovered that libmicrodns incorrectly handled certain inputs,
which could lead to a out-of-bounds read. An attacker could possibly use
this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-6077)

It was discovered that libmicrodns incorrectly handled memory when parsing
mDNS messages in mdns_recv, which could lead to a NULL pointer dereference.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2020-6078)

It was discovered that libmicrodns incorrectly handled memory, which could
lead to excessive memory consumption due to memory leaks. An attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2020-6079, CVE-2020-6080)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · Pro 18.04 LTS Pro:18.04:LTS libmicrodns 0.0.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Vulnerabilities 7

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-6071
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-6072
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-6073
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-6077
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-6078
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-6079
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-6080