CVE-2020-22217

Publication date 22 August 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Only an out-of-bounds read, so denial of service only

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
c-ares	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.15.0-1ubuntu0.4
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

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Package	Patch details
c-ares	Upstream: 1b98172