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Medium RHSA-2023:7392 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: c-ares security update

Published Sep 13, 2024 · Updated Jun 29, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS rhel_eus:8.6::baseos c-ares 0:1.13.0-6.el8_6.2
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS rhel_eus:8.6::baseos c-ares-debuginfo 0:1.13.0-6.el8_6.2
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS rhel_eus:8.6::baseos c-ares-debugsource 0:1.13.0-6.el8_6.2
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS rhel_eus:8.6::baseos c-ares-devel 0:1.13.0-6.el8_6.2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 4.1
    CVE-2023-31130

    Buffer Underwrite in ares_inet_net_pton()

    c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. ares_inet_net_pton() is vulnerable to a buffer underflow for certain ipv6 addresses, in particular "0::00:00:00/2" was found to cause an issue. C-ares only uses this function internally for configuration purposes wh…

    c-ares c-ares nodejs nodejs18 Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Wolfi

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209497
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2023/rhsa-2023_7392.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-31130
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-31130
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-31130
  • article
    https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-x6mf-cxr9-8q6v