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Medium RHSA-2024:3842 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: c-ares security update

Published Sep 16, 2024 · Updated Jun 26, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::appstream c-ares-debuginfo 0:1.19.1-2.el9_4
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::appstream c-ares-debugsource 0:1.19.1-2.el9_4
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::appstream c-ares-devel 0:1.19.1-2.el9_4
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::baseos c-ares 0:1.19.1-2.el9_4
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::baseos c-ares-debuginfo 0:1.19.1-2.el9_4
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::baseos c-ares-debugsource 0:1.19.1-2.el9_4

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 4.4
    CVE-2024-25629

    c-ares out of bounds read in ares__read_line()

    c-ares is a C library for asynchronous DNS requests. `ares__read_line()` is used to parse local configuration files such as `/etc/resolv.conf`, `/etc/nsswitch.conf`, the `HOSTALIASES` file, and if using a c-ares version prior to 1.27.0, the `/etc/hosts` file.…

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

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265713
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_3842.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-25629
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-25629
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-25629
  • article
    https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-mg26-v6qh-x48q