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High RHSA-2023:3741 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: c-ares security update

Published Sep 13, 2024 · Updated Jun 29, 2026

Fixed packages 11

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 7 enterprise_linux:7::client c-ares 0:1.10.0-3.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 enterprise_linux:7::client c-ares-debuginfo 0:1.10.0-3.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 enterprise_linux:7::client c-ares-devel 0:1.10.0-3.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 enterprise_linux:7::computenode c-ares-debuginfo 0:1.10.0-3.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 enterprise_linux:7::computenode c-ares-devel 0:1.10.0-3.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 enterprise_linux:7::server c-ares 0:1.10.0-3.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 enterprise_linux:7::server c-ares-debuginfo 0:1.10.0-3.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 enterprise_linux:7::server c-ares-devel 0:1.10.0-3.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 enterprise_linux:7::workstation c-ares 0:1.10.0-3.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 enterprise_linux:7::workstation c-ares-debuginfo 0:1.10.0-3.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 enterprise_linux:7::workstation c-ares-devel 0:1.10.0-3.el7_9.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5

    0-byte UDP payload DoS in c-ares

    c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. c-ares is vulnerable to denial of service. If a target resolver sends a query, the attacker forges a malformed UDP packet with a length of 0 and returns them to the target resolver. The target resolver erroneously i…

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209502
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2023/rhsa-2023_3741.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-32067
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-32067
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-32067
  • article
    https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-9g78-jv2r-p7vc