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Package "libc-ares2"

Name: libc-ares2

Description:

library for asyncronous name resolves
Latest version: 1.7.5-1ubuntu0.1
Release: precise (12.04)
Level: updates
Repository: main
Head package: c-ares
Homepage: http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/c-ares

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Version: 1.7.5-1ubuntu0.1 2016-11-30 19:07:01 UTC

  c-ares (1.7.5-1ubuntu0.1) precise-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: denial of service and possible execution via hostname
    with an escaped trailing dot (LP: #1629085)
    - debian/patches/CVE-2016-5180.patch: properly handle escaped dot in
      ares_mkquery.c.
    - CVE-2016-5180

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Thu, 06 Oct 2016 10:23:45 -0400
1629085 CVE-2016-5180: out-of-bounds write in ares_create_query and ares_mkquery
CVE-2016-5180 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


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