fkie_cve-2016-5180
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2016-10-03 15:59
Modified
2025-04-12 10:46
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0002.html
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3682
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93243
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3143-1
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://c-ares.haxx.se/CVE-2016-5180.patch
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://c-ares.haxx.se/adv_20160929.html
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://googlechromereleases.blogspot.in/2016/09/stable-channel-updates-for-chrome-os.html
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-28
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0002.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3682
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93243
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3143-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://c-ares.haxx.se/CVE-2016-5180.patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://c-ares.haxx.se/adv_20160929.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.in/2016/09/stable-channel-updates-for-chrome-os.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-28
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
c-ares c-ares 1.0.0
c-ares c-ares 1.1.0
c-ares c-ares 1.2.0
c-ares c-ares 1.2.1
c-ares c-ares 1.3.0
c-ares c-ares 1.3.1
c-ares c-ares 1.3.2
c-ares c-ares 1.4.0
c-ares c-ares 1.5.0
c-ares c-ares 1.5.1
c-ares c-ares 1.5.2
c-ares c-ares 1.5.3
c-ares c-ares 1.6.0
c-ares c-ares 1.7.0
c-ares c-ares 1.7.1
c-ares c-ares 1.7.2
c-ares c-ares 1.7.3
c-ares c-ares 1.7.4
c-ares c-ares 1.7.5
c-ares c-ares 1.8.0
c-ares c-ares 1.9.0
c-ares c-ares 1.9.1
c-ares c-ares 1.10.0
c-ares_project c-ares 1.11.0
debian debian_linux 8.0
nodejs node.js *
nodejs node.js *
nodejs node.js *
canonical ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 16.10


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