CVE-2025-31498

c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. From 1.32.3 through 1.34.4, there is a use-after-free in read_answers() when process_answer() may re-enqueue a query either due to a DNS Cookie Failure or when the upstream server does not properly support EDNS, or possibly on TCP queries if the remote closed the connection immediately after a response. If there was an issue trying to put that new transaction on the wire, it would close the connection handle, but read_answers() was still expecting the connection handle to be available to possibly dequeue other responses. In theory a remote attacker might be able to trigger this by flooding the target with ICMP UNREACHABLE packets if they also control the upstream nameserver and can return a result with one of those conditions, this has been untested. Otherwise only a local attacker might be able to change system behavior to make send()/write() return a failure condition. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.34.5.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/commit/29d38719112639d8c0ba910254a3dd4f482ea2d1
https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/pull/821
https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-6hxc-62jh-p29v
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/08/3

Configurations

No configuration.

History

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-04-08 14:15

Updated : 2025-04-08 18:13

NVD link : CVE-2025-31498

Mitre link : CVE-2025-31498

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-31498

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-416

Use After Free

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