CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2024-25629
Medium (5.5). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
c-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.conf`, the `HOSTALIASES` file, and if using a c-ares version prior to 1.27.0, the `/etc/hosts` file. If any of these configuration files has an embedded `NULL` character as the first character in a new line, it can lead to attempting to read memory prior to the start of the given buffer which may result in a crash. This issue is fixed in c-ares 1.27.0. No known workarounds exist.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 28% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-125, CWE-127
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- c-ares:c-ares
- fedoraproject:fedora
References
- https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/commit/a804c04ddc8245fc8adf0e92368709639125e183
- https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-mg26-v6qh-x48q
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2P76QYINQNPEHUTEEDOUYIRZ2X6UVZ5K/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CSCMTSPDIE2UHU34TIXQQHZ6JTE3Y3VF/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GX37LFPFQ3T6FFMMFYQTEGIQXXN7F27U/