RHSA-2022:2043MediumCVSS 5.6

Red Hat Security Advisory: c-ares security update

Published
May 10, 2022
Last Modified
November 6, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

CVE-2021-3672 — c-ares: Missing input validation of host names may lead to domain hijacking

🎯 Affected products22

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-0:1.13.0-6.el8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-0:1.13.0-6.el8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-0:1.13.0-6.el8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-0:1.13.0-6.el8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-0:1.13.0-6.el8.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-0:1.13.0-6.el8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-debuginfo-0:1.13.0-6.el8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-debuginfo-0:1.13.0-6.el8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-debuginfo-0:1.13.0-6.el8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-debuginfo-0:1.13.0-6.el8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-debuginfo-0:1.13.0-6.el8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-debugsource-0:1.13.0-6.el8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-debugsource-0:1.13.0-6.el8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-debugsource-0:1.13.0-6.el8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-debugsource-0:1.13.0-6.el8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-debugsource-0:1.13.0-6.el8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-devel-0:1.13.0-6.el8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-devel-0:1.13.0-6.el8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-devel-0:1.13.0-6.el8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-devel-0:1.13.0-6.el8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • c-ares-devel-0:1.13.0-6.el8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

🔗 References (5)