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CVE-2016-5180 - log back

CVE-2016-5180 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity	+ High
Remote	+ Remote
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.
References	+ https://c-ares.haxx.se/adv_20160929.html + https://c-ares.haxx.se/CVE-2016-5180.patch
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