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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2020:2092-1 Moderate: c-ares Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey November 28, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A security patch for openSUSE has been released to resolve a moderate denial of service vulnerability found in c-ares. It is advised to install the recommended updates immediately.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for c-ares fixes the following issues:

Version update to 1.17.0

* CVE-2020-8277: Fixed a Denial of Service through DNS request

(bsc#1178882)

* For further details see https://c-ares.org/changelog.html

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service update moderate severity software fix openSUSE c-ares

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-2092=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (i586 x86_64):

c-ares-debugsource-1.17.0-lp152.2.3.1

c-ares-devel-1.17.0-lp152.2.3.1

c-ares-utils-1.17.0-lp152.2.3.1

c-ares-utils-debuginfo-1.17.0-lp152.2.3.1

libcares2-1.17.0-lp152.2.3.1

libcares2-debuginfo-1.17.0-lp152.2.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

libcares2-32bit-1.17.0-lp152.2.3.1

libcares2-32bit-debuginfo-1.17.0-lp152.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8277.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178882

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:2092-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service update moderate severity software fix openSUSE c-ares

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