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A c-ares security update has been released for Fedora 32.



SECURITY: Fedora 32 Update: c-ares-1.17.0-1.fc32


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-307e873389
2020-12-04 00:30:05.645344
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Name : c-ares
Product : Fedora 32
Version : 1.17.0
Release : 1.fc32
URL :   http://c-ares.haxx.se/
Summary : A library that performs asynchronous DNS operations
Description :
c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolves
asynchronously. c-ares is a fork of the library named 'ares', written
by Greg Hudson at MIT.

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Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2020-8277.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Nov 17 2020 Tom Callaway - 1.17.0-1
- update to 1.17.0
* Mon Jul 27 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.16.1-3
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_33_Mass_Rebuild
* Mon Jul 13 2020 Tom Stellard - 1.16.1-2
- Use make macros
-   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/UseMakeBuildInstallMacro
* Mon May 11 2020 Tom Callaway - 1.16.1-1
- update to 1.16.1
* Fri Mar 13 2020 Tom Callaway - 1.16.0-1
- update to 1.16.0
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1898554 - CVE-2020-8277 c-ares: ares_parse_{a,aaaa}_reply() insufficient naddrttls validation DoS
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1898554
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-307e873389' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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