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Fedora 32: 2020-307e873389 Critical: c-ares DoS Threat Patch

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Calendar Grey December 3, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 32 c-ares upgrade addresses CVE-2020-8277, leading to a security enhancement that reduces the risk of DoS attacks.
Security fix for CVE-2020-8277.

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.

Security fix for CVE-2020-8277.

* Tue Nov 17 2020 Tom Callaway - 1.17.0-1

- update to 1.17.0

* Mon Jul 27 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.16.1-3

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_33_Mass_Rebuild

* Mon Jul 13 2020 Tom Stellard - 1.16.1-2

- Use make macros

- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/UseMakeBuildInstallMacro

* Mon May 11 2020 Tom Callaway - 1.16.1-1

- update to 1.16.1

* Fri Mar 13 2020 Tom Callaway - 1.16.0-1

- update to 1.16.0

[ 1 ] Bug #1898554 - CVE-2020-8277 c-ares: ares_parse_{a,aaaa}_reply() insufficient naddrttls validation DoS

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1898554

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-307e873389' 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 32
Version: 1.17.0
Release: 1.fc32
Summary: A library that performs asynchronous DNS operations

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