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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2026/10/22 03:20，Ubuntu Security Notices 发布了“USN-8951-1: c-ares vulnerabilities”（类型：漏洞公告）。相关技术：Ubuntu、Linux。CVE：CVE-2020-22217、CVE-2022-4904。