USN-6676-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2024-25629)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2024-03-06 09:38 – Updated: 2026-06-25 10:46 – Source website
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Summary
c-ares vulnerability
Details

Vojtěch Vobr discovered that c-ares incorrectly handled user input from local configuration files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service via application crash.

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  "modified": "2026-06-25T10:46:19Z",
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