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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2020-14354: c-ares security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2020-14354: c-ares security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/13/2021
Created
07/16/2022
Added
07/11/2022
Modified
07/11/2022

Description

A 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 allows an attacker to crash the service that uses c-ares lib. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to this service availability.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-c-ares

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