CVE-2026-69184

Published: Set 18, 2026 Last Modified: Set 24, 2026

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HIGH 7,5

Source: [email protected]

Attack Vector: network

Attack Complexity: low

Privileges Required: none

User Interaction: none

Scope: unchanged

Confidentiality: none

Integrity: none

Availability: high

Description

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c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. Prior to 1.34.7, ares_dns_name_parse() enforces backward DNS compression pointers but does not bound the total pointer hops or assembled name length. A malicious DNS server can send a response containing a long descending pointer chain and many resource records whose NAME or RDATA fields refer to the chain, causing repeated decompression work that grows quadratically with message size. A single crafted response can stall the single-threaded c-ares event loop and deny DNS resolution, without causing memory corruption or information disclosure. This issue is fixed in version 1.34.7.