Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201609-31
=========================================
Severity: High
Date    : 2016-09-30
CVE-ID  : CVE-2016-5180
Package : c-ares
Type    : arbitrary code execution
Remote  : Yes
Link    : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE

Summary
======
The package c-ares before version 1.12.0-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary
code execution.

Resolution
=========
Upgrade to 1.12.0-1.

# pacman -Syu "c-ares>=1.12.0-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 1.12.0.

Workaround
=========
None.

Description
==========
When a string is passed in to ares_create_query or ares_mkquery and
uses an escaped trailing dot, like "hello\.", c-ares calculates the
string length wrong and subsequently writes outside of the the
allocated buffer with one byte. The wrongly written byte is the least
significant byte of the 'dnsclass' argument; most commonly 1.

Impact
=====
A remote attacker is able to perform a denial of service attack or
possibly execute arbitrary code under certain circumstances.

References
=========
https://c-ares.org/adv_20160929.html
https://c-ares.org/CVE-2016-5180.patch
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5180

ArchLinux: 201609-31: c-ares: arbitrary code execution

September 30, 2016

Summary

When a string is passed in to ares_create_query or ares_mkquery and uses an escaped trailing dot, like "hello\.", c-ares calculates the string length wrong and subsequently writes outside of the the allocated buffer with one byte. The wrongly written byte is the least significant byte of the 'dnsclass' argument; most commonly 1.

Resolution

Upgrade to 1.12.0-1. # pacman -Syu "c-ares>=1.12.0-1"
The problem has been fixed upstream in version 1.12.0.

References

https://c-ares.org/adv_20160929.html https://c-ares.org/CVE-2016-5180.patch https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5180

Severity
Package : c-ares
Type : arbitrary code execution
Remote : Yes
Link : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE

Workaround

None.

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