USN-8951-1: c-ares vulnerabilities

It was discovered that c-ares incorrectly parsed certain SOA replies. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause c-ares to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-22217) It was discovered that c-ares incorrectly handled certain sortlist strings. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause c-ares to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-4904) It was discovered that c-ares did not properly limit DNS compression p…

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On 10/22/2026, 03:20 AM, Ubuntu Security Notices published "USN-8951-1: c-ares vulnerabilities" (type: Advisory). Related technologies: Ubuntu, Linux. CVE: CVE-2020-22217, CVE-2022-4904.