C-Ares

9 CVEs across 1 C-Ares products. Browse C-Ares vulnerabilities, severities, and proof-of-concept exploits.

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C-Ares11
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CVE-2025-62408Medium5.92025-12-08c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. Versions 1.32.3 through 1.34.5 terminate a query after maximum attempts when using read_answer() and process_answe…
CVE-2025-314982025-04-08c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. From 1.32.3 through 1.34.4, there is a use-after-free in read_answers() when process_answer() may re-enqueue a quer…
CVE-2024-25629Medium4.42024-02-23c-ares is a C library for asynchronous DNS requests. `ares__read_line()` is used to parse local configuration files such as `/etc/resolv.conf`, `/etc/nsswitch…
CVE-2020-22217Medium5.92023-08-22Buffer 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.
CVE-2023-32067High7.52023-05-25c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. c-ares is vulnerable to denial of service. If a target resolver sends a query, the attacker forges a malformed UDP…
CVE-2023-31147Medium5.92023-05-25c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. When /dev/urandom or RtlGenRandom() are unavailable, c-ares uses rand() to generate random numbers used for DNS que…
CVE-2023-31130Medium4.12023-05-25c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. ares_inet_net_pton() is vulnerable to a buffer underflow for certain ipv6 addresses, in particular "0::00:00:00/2"…
CVE-2023-31124Low3.72023-05-25c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. When cross-compiling c-ares and using the autotools build system, CARES_RANDOM_FILE will not be set, as seen when c…
CVE-2020-14354Low3.32021-05-13A 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. This flaw possibly a…
CVE-2017-1000381High7.52017-07-07The 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…
CVE-2016-5180Critical9.82016-10-03Heap-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 wr…