C-Ares vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
C-Ares is made by C-Ares. We track 5 published vulnerabilities in it, across 66 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run C-Ares, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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- 8.6%CVE-2016-5180Critical
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...
- 3.3%CVE-2017-1000381High
The c-ares function `ares_parse_naptr_reply()`, which is used for parsing NAPTR responses, could be triggered to read memory outside of the given input buffer if the passed in DNS response packet was crafted in a...
- 1.0%CVE-2020-22217Medium
Buffer 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.
- 0.5%
A possible use-after-free and double-free in c-ares lib version 1.16.0 if ares_destroy() is called prior to ares_getaddrinfo() completing.
- 0.4%CVE-2024-25629Medium
c-ares is a C library for asynchronous DNS requests.
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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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We track 5 published vulnerabilities listed under the name C-Ares, across 66 versions.
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