CVE-2016-5180 log
| Source |
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| Severity | High |
| Remote | Yes |
| Type | Arbitrary code execution |
| Description | When a string is passed in to ares_create_query or ares_mkquery and uses an escaped trailing dot, like "hello\.", c-ares calculates the string length wrong and subsequently writes outside of the the allocated buffer with one byte. The wrongly written byte is the least significant byte of the 'dnsclass' argument; most commonly 1. |
| Group | Package | Affected | Fixed | Severity | Status | Ticket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AVG-37 | c-ares | 1.11.0-1 | 1.12.0-1 | High | Fixed |
| Date | Advisory | Group | Package | Severity | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Sep 2016 | ASA-201609-31 | AVG-37 | c-ares | High | arbitrary code execution |
| References |
|---|
https://c-ares.haxx.se/adv_20160929.html https://c-ares.haxx.se/CVE-2016-5180.patch |