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Fedora 38 FEDORA-2024-d351e7318e Critical c-ares Out Of Bounds Read

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Calendar Grey April 16, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Uncover the specifics of the latest c-ares revision addressing security vulnerability CVE-2024-25629 on Fedora 38. Ensure your safety!

1.28.1 fixes a significant bug in 1.28.0

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:

1.28.1 fixes a significant bug in 1.28.0. Update to 1.28.0. Also fixes CVE-2024-25629.

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Change Log

* Sun Mar 31 2024 Tom Callaway - 1.28.1-1 - update to 1.28.1 * Fri Mar 29 2024 Tom Callaway - 1.28.0-1 - update to 1.28.0 * Tue Jan 23 2024 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.25.0-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild * Fri Jan 19 2024 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.25.0-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2265714 - CVE-2024-25629 c-ares: Out of bounds read in ares__read_line() [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265714

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-d351e7318e' 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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Name: c-ares
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 1.28.1
Release: 1.fc38
URL: https://c-ares.org/
Summary: A library that performs asynchronous DNS operations

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