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Fedora 40: FEDORA-2024-9963d77dcb Critical: c-ares DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey April 19, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 40 introduces significant updates for c-ares, addressing critical vulnerabilities such as CVE-2024-25629 alongside various performance improvements.
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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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow DoS issue Fedora patch c-ares

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

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-2024-9963d77dcb' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: c-ares
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 1.28.1
Release: 1.fc40
URL: http://c-ares.org/
Summary: A library that performs asynchronous DNS operations

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow DoS issue Fedora patch c-ares

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