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Fedora 24 c-ares Security Update: Moderate Buffer Overflow Issue

fedora
Calendar Grey October 6, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical security patch released for Fedora 24 targets c-ares buffer overflow vulnerability, identified as CVE-2016-5180, including comprehensive guidance.
Security fix for CVE-2016-5180

Summary

c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolves

asynchronously. c-ares is a fork of the library named 'ares', written

by Greg Hudson at MIT.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2016-5180

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow software update Fedora c-ares DNS operations

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1380463 - CVE-2016-5180 c-ares: Single byte out of buffer write https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380463

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update c-ares' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Name: c-ares
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 1.12.0
Release: 1.fc24
URL: https://c-ares.org/
Summary: A library that performs asynchronous DNS operations

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow software update Fedora c-ares DNS operations

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