Bug 1214674 (CVE-2020-22217)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2020-22217: c-ares,libcares2: out of bounds read in ares_parse_soa_reply()
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	Carlos López <carlos.lopez>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	security-team
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/375978/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2020-22217:7.6:(AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H)
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Carlos López 2023-08-28 08:54:56 UTC

CVE-2020-22217

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.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2020-22217
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-22217
https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/issues/333

Comment 1 Carlos López 2023-08-28 08:56:20 UTC

SUSE:ALP:Source:Standard:1.0/c-ares  Already fixed
SUSE:SLE-15:Update/c-ares            Already fixed
openSUSE:Factory/c-ares              Already fixed
SUSE:SLE-11-SP2:Update/libcares2     Not affected
SUSE:SLE-12:Update/libcares2         Affected

Comment 4 Maintenance Automation 2023-09-20 08:30:29 UTC

SUSE-SU-2023:3690-1: An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Category: security (important)
Bug References: 1214674
CVE References: CVE-2020-22217
Sources used:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 (src): libcares2-1.9.1-9.18.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (src): libcares2-1.9.1-9.18.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (src): libcares2-1.9.1-9.18.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (src): libcares2-1.9.1-9.18.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 12-SP5 (src): libcares2-1.9.1-9.18.1

NOTE: This line indicates an update has been released for the listed product(s). At times this might be only a partial fix. If you have questions please reach out to maintenance coordination.

Comment 5 Carlos López 2023-11-16 11:24:04 UTC

Done, closing.