CVE-2020-6073: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

  • Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
  • Videolabs Libmicrodns: version 0.1.0 only

Published 2020-03-24. Last modified 2026-10-08.