MGASA-2021-0453 - Updated c-ares packages fix security vulnerability Publication date: 02 Oct 2021 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0453.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 8 CVE: CVE-2021-3672 Missing input validation on hostnames returned by DNS servers. (CVE-2021-3672) References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29350 - https://c-ares.haxx.se/adv_20210810.html - https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4954 - https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5034-1 - https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/4F2ZKNNMGENSNMAS5CDHA3CDDRAXF3AQ/ - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/KPERAVSVZ542L4S6OA2QPUXNAJ4F2M5X/ - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3672 SRPMS: - 8/core/c-ares-1.17.1-1.1.mga8
Mageia 2021-0453: c-ares security update
Missing input validation on hostnames returned by DNS servers
Summary
CVE: CVE-2021-3672
Missing input validation on hostnames returned by DNS servers.
(CVE-2021-3672)
Resolution
MGASA-2021-0453 - Updated c-ares packages fix security vulnerability
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29350
- https://c-ares.haxx.se/adv_20210810.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4954
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5034-1
- https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/4F2ZKNNMGENSNMAS5CDHA3CDDRAXF3AQ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/KPERAVSVZ542L4S6OA2QPUXNAJ4F2M5X/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3672
Severity
Issued Date: 02 Oct 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0453.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 8
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