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Fedora 38 c-ares Critical Update: DoS and Buffer Problems

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Calendar Grey May 26, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Enhance c-ares to version 1.19.1 to resolve various security concerns, including Denial of Service vulnerabilities, in Fedora 38.
Update to 1.19.1

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 to 1.19.1. Fixes CVE-2023-32067, CVE-2023-31130, CVE-2023-31147,

CVE-2023-31124

* Wed May 24 2023 Tom Callaway - 1.19.1-1

- update to 1.19.1

- fixes CVE-2023-32067

[ 1 ] Bug #2209494 - CVE-2023-31124 c-ares: AutoTools does not set CARES_RANDOM_FILE during cross compilation

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209494

[ 2 ] Bug #2209497 - CVE-2023-31130 c-ares: Buffer Underwrite in ares_inet_net_pton()

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209497

[ 3 ] Bug #2209501 - CVE-2023-31147 c-ares: Insufficient randomness in generation of DNS query IDs

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209501

[ 4 ] Bug #2209502 - CVE-2023-32067 c-ares: 0-byte UDP payload Denial of Service

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209502

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-520848815b' 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 38
Version: 1.19.1
Release: 1.fc38
Summary: A library that performs asynchronous DNS operations

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