SB2020042934 - Uncontrolled Recursion in vlc (Alpine package)
Published: April 29, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020042934
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-6071)
CWE-ID: CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the compression pointer is followed without checking for recursion in the resource record-parsing functionality when parsing compressed labels in mDNS messages. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted mDNS message and cause a denial of service condition on the target system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.