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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-6073: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-6073: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/24/2020
Created
06/16/2020
Added
06/16/2020
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-vlc

References

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