CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-4904
8.6 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-03-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 8.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1284, CWE-20
Description
A flaw was found in the c-ares package. The ares_set_sortlist is missing checks about the validity of the input string, which allows a possible arbitrary length stack overflow. This issue may cause a denial of service or a limited impact on confidentiality and integrity.
Affected configurations
• c-ares project c-ares (< 1.19.0)
• redhat software collections
• redhat enterprise linux 8.0
• redhat enterprise linux 9.0
• fedoraproject fedora 36
Related
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2168631 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/issues/496 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/33LDNS6RPOPP36Z4MPWXALUQZXJCWJS2/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-02 security.gentoo.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2168631 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/issues/496 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/33LDNS6RPOPP36Z4MPWXALUQZXJCWJS2/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-02 security.gentoo.org