Unchecked Return Value
CVE-2020-6078
Summary
An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the message-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When parsing mDNS messages in mdns_recv, the return value of the mdns_read_header function is not checked, leading to an uninitialized variable usage that eventually results in a null pointer dereference, leading to service crash. An attacker can send a series of mDNS messages to trigger this vulnerability.
- LOW
- NETWORK
- NONE
- UNCHANGED
- NONE
- NONE
- NONE
- HIGH
CWE-252 - Unchecked Return Value
The software does not check the return value from a method or function, which can prevent it from detecting unexpected states and conditions.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published