Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: c-ares security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for c-ares is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. 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...

c-ares: Insufficient randomness in generation of DNS query IDs

A vulnerability was found in c-ares. This issue occurs when /dev/urandom or RtlGenRandom are unavailable, c-ares will use rand to generate random numbers used for DNS query ids. This is not a CSPRNG, and it is also not seeded by srand, so it will generate predictable output...

c-ares: AutoTools does not set CARES_RANDOM_FILE during cross compilation

A flaw was found in c-ares. This issue occurs when cross-compiling c-ares and using the autotools build system, CARESRANDOMFILE will not be set, as seen when cross-compiling aarch64 android. As a result, it will downgrade to rand, which could allow an attacker to utilize the lack of entropy by no...

c-ares: Buffer Underwrite in ares_inet_net_pton()

A vulnerability was found in c-ares. This issue occurs in the aresinetnetpton function, which is vulnerable to a buffer underflow for certain ipv6 addresses. "0::00:00:00/2" in particular was found to cause an issue. C-ares only uses this function internally for configuration purposes, which woul...

RHEL 9 : protobuf-c (RHSA-2023:6621)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6621 advisory. The protobuf-c packages provide C bindings for Google's Protocol Buffers. Security Fixes: protobuf-c: unsigned integer overflow in parserequiredmembe...

Rocky Linux 8 : json-c (RLSA-2021:4382)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2021:4382 advisory. - json-c through 0.14 has an integer overflow and out-of-bounds write via a large JSON file, as demonstrated by printbufmemappend. CVE-2020-12762 Note that Nessu...

ALSA-2023:6409 Moderate: libvirt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The libvirt library contains a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems. In addition, libvirt provides tools for remote management of virtualized systems. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version:...

ALSA-2023:6621 Moderate: protobuf-c security update

The protobuf-c packages provide C bindings for Google's Protocol Buffers. Security Fixes: protobuf-c: unsigned integer overflow in parserequiredmember CVE-2022-48468 For more details about the security issues, including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, ref...

ALSA-2023:6551 Moderate: yajl security update

Yet Another JSON Library YAJL is a small event-driven SAX-style JSON parser written in ANSI C, and a small validating JSON generator. Security Fixes: yajl: Memory leak in yajltreeparse function CVE-2023-33460 For more details about the security issues, including the impact, a CVSS score,...

ALSA-2023:6635 Moderate: c-ares security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The c-ares C library defines asynchronous DNS Domain Name System requests and provides name resolving API. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: c-ares 1.19.1. BZ2210370 Security Fixes: c-ares: buffer overflow in configsortlist due to missing string length check...

Rocky Linux 8 : mariadb-connector-c (RLSA-2020:5503)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2020:5503 advisory. - libmariadb/mariadblib.c in MariaDB Connector/C before 3.1.8 does not properly validate the content of an OK packet received from a server. NOTE:...

RHEL 9 : c-ares (RHSA-2023:6635)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6635 advisory. The c-ares C library defines asynchronous DNS Domain Name System requests and provides name resolving API. The following packages have been...

RHEL 9 : librabbitmq (RHSA-2023:6482)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6482 advisory. The librabbitmq packages provide an Advanced Message Queuing Protocol AMQP client library that allows you to communicate with AMQP servers using...

Rocky Linux 8 : glibc (RLSA-2021:1585)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2021:1585 advisory. - The iconv program in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.31 and earlier, when invoked with multiple suffixes in the destination encoding TRANSLATE ...

RHEL 9 : libfastjson (RHSA-2023:6431)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6431 advisory. The libfastjson library provides essential JavaScript Object Notation JSON handling functions. The library enables users to construct JSON objects in...

Moderate: protobuf-c security update

The protobuf-c packages provide C bindings for Google's Protocol Buffers. Security Fixes: protobuf-c: unsigned integer overflow in parserequiredmember CVE-2022-48468 For more details about the security issues, including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, ref...

Moderate: libvirt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The libvirt library contains a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems. In addition, libvirt provides tools for remote management of virtualized systems. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version:...

Moderate: c-ares security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The c-ares C library defines asynchronous DNS Domain Name System requests and provides name resolving API. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: c-ares 1.19.1. BZ2210370 Security Fixes: c-ares: buffer overflow in configsortlist due to missing string length check...

PYSEC-2023-233

Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command-line utility to read, write, delete and modify Exif, IPTC, XMP and ICC image metadata. An out-of-bounds write was found in Exiv2 version v0.28.0. The vulnerable function, BmffImage::brotliUncompress, is new in v0.28.0, so earlier versions of Exiv2 are not...

BIT-2020-2752

Vulnerability in the MySQL Client product of Oracle MySQL component: C API. Supported versions that are affected are 5.6.47 and prior, 5.7.27 and prior and 8.0.17 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise...