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Medium RHSA-2026:7414 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs bug fix and enhancement update

Published Apr 21, 2026 · Updated Oct 6, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · Hardened Images 1 hummingbird:1 c-ares 0:1.34.6-3.1.hum1
Red Hat · Hardened Images 1 hummingbird:1 c-ares-devel 0:1.34.6-3.1.hum1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.9
    CVE-2025-62408

    c-ares has a Use After Free vulnerability when connection is cleaned up after error

    c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. Versions 1.32.3 through 1.34.5 terminate a query after maximum attempts when using read_answer() and process_answer(), which can cause a Denial of Service. This issue is fixed in version 1.34.6.

    c-ares c-ares fluent-bit c-ares Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine

References

  • article
    https://images.redhat.com/
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-62408
  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_7414.json
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2420217
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-62408
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62408
  • article
    https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/commit/714bf5675c541bd1e668a8db8e67ce012651e618
  • article
    https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-jq53-42q6-pqr5