ghsa-29hr-5wcr-whpc
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-14 03:56
Modified
2022-05-14 03:56
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ares_create_query function in c-ares 1.x before 1.12.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a hostname with an escaped trailing dot.

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{
   affected: [],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2016-5180",
   ],
   database_specific: {
      cwe_ids: [
         "CWE-787",
      ],
      github_reviewed: false,
      github_reviewed_at: null,
      nvd_published_at: "2016-10-03T15:59:00Z",
      severity: "CRITICAL",
   },
   details: "Heap-based buffer overflow in the ares_create_query function in c-ares 1.x before 1.12.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a hostname with an escaped trailing dot.",
   id: "GHSA-29hr-5wcr-whpc",
   modified: "2022-05-14T03:56:52Z",
   published: "2022-05-14T03:56:52Z",
   references: [
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5180",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://c-ares.haxx.se/CVE-2016-5180.patch",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://c-ares.haxx.se/adv_20160929.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.in/2016/09/stable-channel-updates-for-chrome-os.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-28",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0002.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3682",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93243",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3143-1",
      },
   ],
   schema_version: "1.4.0",
   severity: [
      {
         score: "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
         type: "CVSS_V3",
      },
   ],
}


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