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A c-ares security update has been released for Fedora 38.



SECURITY: Fedora 38 Update: c-ares-1.19.1-1.fc38


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-520848815b
2023-05-26 01:50:09.807768
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Name : c-ares
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 1.19.1
Release : 1.fc38
URL :   http://c-ares.org/
Summary : A library that performs asynchronous DNS operations
Description :
c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolves
asynchronously. c-ares is a fork of the library named 'ares', written
by Greg Hudson at MIT.

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Update Information:

Update to 1.19.1. Fixes CVE-2023-32067, CVE-2023-31130, CVE-2023-31147,
CVE-2023-31124
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ChangeLog:

* Wed May 24 2023 Tom Callaway - 1.19.1-1
- update to 1.19.1
- fixes CVE-2023-32067
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2209494 - CVE-2023-31124 c-ares: AutoTools does not set CARES_RANDOM_FILE during cross compilation
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209494
[ 2 ] Bug #2209497 - CVE-2023-31130 c-ares: Buffer Underwrite in ares_inet_net_pton()
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209497
[ 3 ] Bug #2209501 - CVE-2023-31147 c-ares: Insufficient randomness in generation of DNS query IDs
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209501
[ 4 ] Bug #2209502 - CVE-2023-32067 c-ares: 0-byte UDP payload Denial of Service
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209502
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-520848815b' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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