c-ares vulnerabilities
It was discovered that c-ares incorrectly parsed certain SOA replies. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause c-ares to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-22217) It was discovered that c-ares incorrectly handled certain sortlist strings. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause c-ares to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-4904) It was discovered that c-ares did not properly limit DNS compression pointer hops or assembled name lengths when parsing DNS names. A remote attacker could possibly use th
Read at Ubuntu Security Notices
- Vendor
- Canonical
- Product
- Ubuntu
- Exposure class
- Operating system
Why it ranks 25 (Notable)
- Product class: operating system
- Widely deployed vendor product (Canonical)
- Covered by 2 independent sources
- Vendor security advisory
- Recency: items published within 24 hours gain 15, within 72 hours 6, within 7 days 2.
Links
- Ubuntu Security Notices (ubuntu.com)
- CVE-2020-22217 on this site · NVD · CVE.org · Vulnpedia
- CVE-2022-4904 on this site · NVD · CVE.org · Vulnpedia
- CVE-2026-69184 on this site · NVD · CVE.org · Vulnpedia
- CVE-2026-69186 on this site · NVD · CVE.org · Vulnpedia
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