Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-6291-01 - An update for c-ares is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support. Issues addressed include a buffer overflow vulnerability.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: c-ares security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:6291-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6291
Issue date: 2023-11-02
Revision: 01
CVE Names: CVE-2022-4904
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Summary:
An update for c-ares is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description:
The c-ares C library defines asynchronous DNS (Domain Name System) requests and provides name resolving API.
Security Fix(es):
* c-ares: buffer overflow in config_sortlist() due to missing string length check (CVE-2022-4904)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2022-4904
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate