RHSA-2023:7207MediumCVSS 5.9

Red Hat Security Advisory: c-ares security update

Published
November 14, 2023
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

📋 Description

CVE-2020-22217 — c-ares: Heap buffer over read in ares_parse_soa_reply CVE-2023-31130 — c-ares: Buffer Underwrite in ares_inet_net_pton()

🎯 Affected products22

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-0:1.13.0-9.el8_9.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-0:1.13.0-9.el8_9.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-0:1.13.0-9.el8_9.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-0:1.13.0-9.el8_9.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-0:1.13.0-9.el8_9.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-0:1.13.0-9.el8_9.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-debuginfo-0:1.13.0-9.el8_9.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-debuginfo-0:1.13.0-9.el8_9.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-debuginfo-0:1.13.0-9.el8_9.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-debuginfo-0:1.13.0-9.el8_9.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-debuginfo-0:1.13.0-9.el8_9.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-debugsource-0:1.13.0-9.el8_9.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-debugsource-0:1.13.0-9.el8_9.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-debugsource-0:1.13.0-9.el8_9.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-debugsource-0:1.13.0-9.el8_9.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-debugsource-0:1.13.0-9.el8_9.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-devel-0:1.13.0-9.el8_9.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-devel-0:1.13.0-9.el8_9.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-devel-0:1.13.0-9.el8_9.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-devel-0:1.13.0-9.el8_9.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-devel-0:1.13.0-9.el8_9.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

🔗 References (5)