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DEBIAN-CVE-2023-31124

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-31124 PUBLISHED CVSS 3.700000047683716 LOW

c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. When cross-compiling c-ares and using the autotools build system, CARES_RANDOM_FILE will not be set, as seen when cross compiling aarch64 android. This will downgrade to using rand() as a fallback which could allow an attacker to take advantage of the lack of entropy by not using a CSPRNG. This issue was patched in version 1.19.1.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
3.700000047683716
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:13c-ares0, 0, 0
Debian:12c-ares0, 1.18.1-3, 1.19.0-1
Debian:11c-ares0, 1.17.1-1, 1.17.1-1
Debian:14c-ares0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • May 25, 2023 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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