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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