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Fedora 42: FEDORA-2025-19b0cab086 critical: c-ares DNS fix

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Calendar Grey April 11, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade the c-ares library in Fedora 42 to address the severe DNS vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-31498 by implementing version 1.34.5.
Update to 1.34.5

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:

Update to 1.34.5. Fixes CVE-2025-31498.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora DNS c-ares

Change Log

* Tue Apr 8 2025 Tom Callaway - 1.34.5-1 - update to 1.34.5

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2358275 - c-ares-1.34.5 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2358275

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-19b0cab086' 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 42
Version: 1.34.5
Release: 1.fc42
URL: http://c-ares.org/
Summary: A library that performs asynchronous DNS operations

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora DNS c-ares

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