vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2020-8277: c-ares -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 19, 2020
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

A Node.js application that allows an attacker to trigger a DNS request for a host of their choice could trigger a Denial of Service in versions < 15.2.1, < 14.15.1, and < 12.19.1 by getting the application to resolve a DNS record with a larger number of responses. This is fixed in 15.2.1, 14.15.1, and 12.19.1.

Solution

debian-upgrade-c-ares
Title
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