c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. When cross-compiling c-ares and using the autotools build system, CARES_RANDOM_FILE will not be set, as seen when cross compiling aarch64 android. This will downgrade to using rand() as a fallback which could allow an attacker to take advantage of the lack of entropy by not using a CSPRNG. This issue was patched in version 1.19.1.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2023-05-25T21:09:31.881Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T14:45:25.746Z

Reserved: 2023-04-24T21:44:10.415Z

Link: CVE-2023-31124

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2023-05-25T22:15:09.680

Modified: 2023-10-31T16:05:56.790

Link: CVE-2023-31124

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2023-05-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-31124 - Bugzilla