Subject: Re: [SECURITY ADVISORY] c-ares: single byte out of buffer write

Re: [SECURITY ADVISORY] c-ares: single byte out of buffer write

From: bch <brad.harder_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 13:29:26 -0700

On 9/29/16, bch <brad.harder_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> This release doesn't have the ./configure properly generated.

Note to self, others: it's essentially the git checkout - run ./buildconf.

-bch

> On 9/29/16, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Sep 2016, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>>
>>> INFO
>>> ----
>>>
>>> The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned the
>>> name
>>> CVE-2016-5180 to this issue.
>>>
>>> AFFECTED VERSIONS
>>> -----------------
>>>
>>> This flaw exists in the following c-ares versions.
>>>
>>> - Affected versions: libcurl 1.0.0 to and including 1.11.0
>>> - Not affected versions: c-ares >= 1.12.0
>>
>> Sorry for being sloppy. I meant to write c-ares above and not libcurl.
>> This
>>
>> was a copy and paste error that is already fixed in the web version of
>> this
>>
>> advisory at
>>
>> https://c-ares.haxx.se/adv_20160929.html
>>
>> --
>>
>> / daniel.haxx.se
>>
>
Received on 2016-09-29