CVE-2020-22217

Summary

CVECVE-2020-22217
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-08-22 19:16:00 UTC
Updated2023-10-30 17:47:00 UTC
DescriptionBuffer overflow vulnerability in c-ares before 1_16_1 thru 1_17_0 via function ares_parse_soa_reply in ares_parse_soa_reply.c.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application C-ares C-ares 1.16.1 All All All
Application C-ares C-ares 1.17.0 All All All
Application C-ares C-ares 1.70.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 3567-1] c-ares security update MLIST lists.debian.org
read-heap-buffer-overflow in ares_parse_soa_reply() · Issue #333 · c-ares/c-ares · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 161189 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for c-ares (ELSA-2023-7207)
  • 199761 Ubuntu Security Notification for c-ares Vulnerability (USN-6376-1)
  • 242447 Red Hat Update for c-ares (RHSA-2023:7207)
  • 242750 Red Hat Update for c-ares (RHSA-2024:0419)
  • 242802 Red Hat Update for c-ares (RHSA-2024:0578)
  • 6000147 Debian Security Update for c-ares (DLA 3567-1)
  • 754881 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for libcares2 (SUSE-SU-2023:3690-1)
  • 907722 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for python-gevent (28597-1)
  • 941455 AlmaLinux Security Update for c-ares (ALSA-2023:7207)
  • 961083 Rocky Linux Security Update for c-ares (RLSA-2023:7207)
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