Mageia 8: MGASA-2023-0069 Critical: c-ares Denial Of Service
mageia
February 27, 2023
The config_sortlist function is missing checks about the validity of the input string, which allows a possible arbitrary length stack overflow and thus may cause a denial of servic...
Summary
The config_sortlist function is missing checks about the validity of the
input string, which allows a possible arbitrary length stack overflow and
thus may cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-4904)
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31573
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00017.html
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-4904
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 8/core/c-ares-1.17.1-1.2.mga8
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Publication date: 27 Feb 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0069.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-4904
Topics Covered
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