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c-ares

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  • High 7.5

    c-ares: CPU-exhaustion denial of service via unbounded DNS name compression pointer chains

    c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. Prior to 1.34.7, ares_dns_name_parse() enforces backward DNS compression pointers but does not bound the total pointer hops or assembled name length. A malicious DNS server can send a response containing a long desc…

  • Medium 5.3

    c-ares: Memory-amplification denial of service via unvalidated DNS header record counts

    c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. Prior to 1.34.7, ares_dns_parse() trusts the attacker-controlled ANCOUNT, NSCOUNT, and ARCOUNT fields before confirming that the DNS response contains enough bytes for the claimed records. Because process_answer() i…

  • High 7.5

    c-ares : Use-after-free / double-free in c-ares query-completion handling, remotely triggerable via ares_getaddrinfo() over TCP

    c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. From ver 1.32.3 until 1.34.7, a use-after-free / double-free in c-ares' query-completion handling. The same flaw — a query's callback being invoked while the query is still linked in the channel's internal lookup st…

  • Medium 5.9

    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.

  • Medium 4.4

    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.…

  • Unscored —

    Buffer overflow vulnerability in c-ares before 1_16_1 thru 1_17_0 via function ares_parse_soa_reply in ares_parse_soa_r…

  • 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…

  • Medium 4.1

    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…

  • High 8.6

    A flaw was found in the c-ares package. The ares_set_sortlist is missing checks about the validity of the input string,…

  • Unscored —

    A flaw was found in c-ares library, where a missing input validation check of host names returned by DNS (Domain Name S…

  • Unscored —

    The c-ares function `ares_parse_naptr_reply()`, which is used for parsing NAPTR responses, could be triggered to read m…

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2016-5180 Public exploit

    Heap-based buffer overflow in the ares_create_query function in c-ares 1.x before 1.12.0 allows remote attackers to cau…