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Fedora 25 mingw-c-ares Security Update FEDORA-2017-05254795cf Critical DoS

fedora
Calendar Grey August 1, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important patch for mingw-c-ares on Fedora 25 targeting CVE-2017-1000382 vulnerability specifics.
New version, security fix for CVE-2017-1000381.

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.

New version, security fix for CVE-2017-1000381.

[ 1 ] Bug #1463135 - CVE-2017-1000381 mingw-c-ares: c-ares: NAPTR parser out of bounds access [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1463135

su -c 'dnf upgrade mingw-c-ares' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 1.13.0
Release: 1.fc25
Summary: Library that performs asynchronous DNS operations

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