cve-2023-31130
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-05-25 21:45
Modified
2024-08-02 14:45
Severity ?
4.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Buffer Underwrite in ares_inet_net_pton()
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/releases/tag/cares-1_19_1Release Notes
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-x6mf-cxr9-8q6vThird Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00034.htmlMailing List
security-advisories@github.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5Z5XFNXTNPTCBBVXFDNZQVLLIE6VRBY/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UBFWILTA33LOSV23P44FGTQQIDRJHIY7/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-09Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240605-0005/
security-advisories@github.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5419Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
c-aresc-ares
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