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CVE-2023-31147: Use of Insufficiently Random Values

May 25, 2023 (updated October 31, 2023)

c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. When /dev/urandom or RtlGenRandom() are unavailable, c-ares uses rand() to generate random numbers used for DNS query ids. This is not a CSPRNG, and it is also not seeded by srand() so will generate predictable output. Input from the random number generator is fed into a non-compilant RC4 implementation and may not be as strong as the original RC4 implementation. No attempt is made to look for modern OS-provided CSPRNGs like arc4random() that is widely available. This issue has been fixed in version 1.19.1.

References

  • github.com/c-ares/c-ares/releases/tag/cares-1_19_1
  • github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-8r8p-23f3-64c2
  • lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5Z5XFNXTNPTCBBVXFDNZQVLLIE6VRBY/
  • lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UBFWILTA33LOSV23P44FGTQQIDRJHIY7/
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-31147

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Affected versions

All versions before 1.19.1

Fixed versions

  • 1.19.1

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.19.1 or above.

Impact 6.5 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-330: Use of Insufficiently Random Values

Source file

conan/c-ares/CVE-2023-31147.yml

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