OpenCVE

Buffer 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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
C-ares	C-ares
Debian	Debian Linux
Redhat	Enterprise Linux Rhel Eus

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.16.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.17.0:::::::*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
c-ares-0:1.13.0-9.el8_9.1	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8	RHSA-2023:7207	2023-11-14T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support
c-ares-0:1.13.0-6.el8_6.3	cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6	RHSA-2024:0419	2024-01-25T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support
c-ares-0:1.13.0-6.el8_8.4	cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8	RHSA-2024:0578	2024-01-30T00:00:00Z

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/issues/333
https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/pull/332
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00014.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-22217
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-22217

History

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 20:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-08-22T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-10-03T19:59:30.808Z

Reserved: 2020-08-13T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-22217

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T14:51:10.438Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-08-22T19:16:19.050

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:13:11.640

Link: CVE-2020-22217

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-08-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-22217 - Bugzilla

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