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Fedora 26: Vital c-ares Security Update for Critical Out Of Bounds Access

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Calendar Grey June 22, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Patch for c-ares fixes out-of-bounds issue in the parser for Fedora 26, enhancing DNS functionality and stability.
CVE-2017-1000381: c-ares NAPTR parser out of bounds access

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.

CVE-2017-1000381: c-ares NAPTR parser out of bounds access

su -c 'dnf upgrade 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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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 1.13.0
Release: 1.fc26
Summary: A library that performs asynchronous DNS operations

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