| Revision Date: | 2021-08-17 | Version: | 1 |
| Title: | Security update for c-ares (Important) |
| Description: |
This update for c-ares fixes the following issues:
Version update to git snapshot 1.17.1+20200724:
- CVE-2021-3672: fixed missing input validation on hostnames returned by DNS servers (bsc#1188881) - If ares_getaddrinfo() was terminated by an ares_destroy(), it would cause crash - Crash in sortaddrinfo() if the list size equals 0 due to an unexpected DNS response - Expand number of escaped characters in DNS replies as per RFC1035 5.1 to prevent spoofing - Use unbuffered /dev/urandom for random data to prevent early startup performance issues
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| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Status: | | Reference(s): | 1188881
CVE-2021-3672
SUSE-SU-2021:2760-1
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| Platform(s): | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS
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| Definition Synopsis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS is installed AND Package Information
c-ares-devel-1.17.1+20200724-3.14.1 is installed
OR libcares2-1.17.1+20200724-3.14.1 is installed
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