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Package "c-ares"

Name: c-ares

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  • asynchronous name resolver - development files
  • asynchronous name resolver
Latest version: 1.33.0-1ubuntu0.1
Release: oracular (24.10)
Level: security
Repository: main

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Version: 1.33.0-1ubuntu0.1 2025-05-05 14:07:39 UTC

  c-ares (1.33.0-1ubuntu0.1) oracular-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: Use after free() in read_answers()
    - debian/patches/CVE-2025-31498-pre1.patch: ares_getaddrinfo() for
      AF_UNSPEC should retry if ipv6 received in
      src/lib/ares_getaddrinfo.c, test/ares-test-mock-ai.cc.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2025-31498-1.patch: queue queries to be resent in
      src/lib/ares_close_sockets.c, src/lib/ares_cookie.c,
      src/lib/ares_private.h, src/lib/ares_process.c,
      src/lib/dsa/ares__array.c, src/lib/dsa/ares__array.h,
      test/ares-test-mock-ai.cc, test/ares-test-mock.cc, test/ares-test.cc,
      test/ares-test.h.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2025-31498-2.patch: windows build fix in
      test/ares-test.cc.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2025-31498-3.patch: remove unused vars in
      src/lib/ares_process.c.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2025-31498-4.patch: windows build fix in
      test/ares-test.cc.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2025-31498-5.patch: variable set but never read in
      src/lib/ares_process.c.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2025-31498-6.patch: build fix in
      test/ares-test.cc, test/ares-test.h.
    - debian/libcares2.symbols: added new symbol.
    - CVE-2025-31498

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Wed, 09 Apr 2025 11:05:05 -0400
CVE-2025-31498 c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. From 1.32.3 through 1.34.4, there is a use-after-free in read_answers() when process_answer() may re-enqu


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