Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.10.2016.0351
Category:	Mageia Linux Local Security Checks
Title:	Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2016-0351)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'c-ares' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2016-0351 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'c-ares' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2016-0351 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: In c-ares before 1.12.0, When a string is passed in to 'ares_create_query' or 'ares_mkquery' and uses an escaped trailing dot, like 'hello\.', c-ares calculates the string length wrong and subsequently writes outside of the allocated buffer with one byte. The wrongly written byte is the least significant byte of the 'dnsclass' argument, most commonly 1 (CVE-2016-5180). Affected Software/OS: 'c-ares' package(s) on Mageia 5. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 7.5 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-5180 BugTraq ID: 93243 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93243 Debian Security Information: DSA-3682 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3682 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-28 RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2017:0002 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0002.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3143-1
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