{"id":"USN-3143-1","summary":"c-ares vulnerability","details":"Gzob Qq discovered that c-ares incorrectly handled certain hostnames. A\nremote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using c-ares to\ncrash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary\ncode.\n","modified":"2026-02-10T04:41:03Z","published":"2016-11-30T18:22:12Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5180"],"upstream":["CVE-2016-5180","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5180"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3143-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5180"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"c-ares","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/c-ares@1.10.0-2ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.10.0-2ubuntu0.1"}]}],"versions":["1.10.0-2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_version":"1.10.0-2ubuntu0.1","binary_name":"libc-ares-dev"},{"binary_version":"1.10.0-2ubuntu0.1","binary_name":"libc-ares2"}]},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","cves":[{"id":"CVE-2016-5180","severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]}]},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3143-1.json"}},{"package":{"name":"c-ares","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/c-ares@1.10.0-3ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.10.0-3ubuntu0.1"}]}],"versions":["1.10.0-2","1.10.0-3"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_version":"1.10.0-3ubuntu0.1","binary_name":"libc-ares-dev"},{"binary_version":"1.10.0-3ubuntu0.1","binary_name":"libc-ares2"}]},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","cves":[{"id":"CVE-2016-5180","severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]}]},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3143-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}