CVE-2020-8277: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

November 19, 2020 (updated December 2, 2021)

c-ares’ ares_parse_{a,aaaa}_reply() suffers from a Denial Of Service due to insufficient naddrttls validation.

References

lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A7WH7W46OZSEUHWBHD7TCH3LRFY52V6Z/
nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/november-2020-security-releases/
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8277

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