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Fedora 25: FEDORA-2016-4f34f26649 Critical: mingw-c-ares Heap Corruption

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Calendar Grey October 9, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Urgent security notice for Fedora 25 related to CVE-2016-5180 in mingw-c-ares. Immediate update necessary.
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

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Topics Covered

security advisory heap corruption Fedora critical threat DNS issue C library mingw-c-ares

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 mingw-c-ares' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: mingw-c-ares
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 1.12.0
Release: 1.fc25
URL: https://c-ares.org/
Summary: Library that performs asynchronous DNS operations

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Topics Covered

security advisory heap corruption Fedora critical threat DNS issue C library mingw-c-ares

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