Advisories » MGASA-2017-0215

Updated c-ares packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 23 Jul 2017
Modification date: 23 Jul 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2017-1000381

Description

The c-ares function ares_parse_naptr_reply(), which is used for parsing
NAPTR responses, could be triggered to read memory outside of the given
input buffer if the passed in DNS response packet was crafted in a
particular way (CVE-2017-1000381).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21115
• https://c-ares.haxx.se/adv_20170620.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1000381

SRPMS

5/core

• c-ares-1.10.0-5.2.mga5