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HistoryNov 19, 2020 - 12:00 a.m.

c-ares vulnerability

2020-11-1900:00:00
ubuntu.com
48

7.9 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.008 Low

EPSS

Percentile

81.1%

Releases

  • Ubuntu 20.10

Packages

  • c-ares - library for asynchronous name resolution

Details

It was discovered that c-ares incorrectly handled certain DNS requests.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Ubuntu20.10noarchlibc-ares2< 1.16.1-1ubuntu0.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu20.10noarchlibc-ares-dev< 1.16.1-1ubuntu0.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu20.10noarchlibc-ares2-dbgsym< 1.16.1-1ubuntu0.1UNKNOWN