ALPINE-CVE-2016-5180

Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-5180
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2016-5180.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2016-5180
Upstream
Published
2016-10-03T15:59:03Z
Modified
2025-09-30T05:03:32.947932Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Heap-based buffer overflow in the arescreatequery function in c-ares 1.x before 1.12.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a hostname with an escaped trailing dot.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.2

c-ares

Package

Name
c-ares
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/c-ares?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.12.0-r0

Affected versions

1.*

1.6.0-r0
1.6.0-r1
1.7.0-r0
1.7.0-r1
1.7.3-r0
1.7.4-r0
1.7.4-r1
1.7.4-r2
1.7.5-r0
1.8.0-r0
1.9.0-r0
1.9.1-r0
1.10.0-r0
1.10.0-r1

Alpine:v3.3

c-ares

Package

Name
c-ares
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/c-ares?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.12.0-r0

Affected versions

1.*

1.6.0-r0
1.6.0-r1
1.7.0-r0
1.7.0-r1
1.7.3-r0
1.7.4-r0
1.7.4-r1
1.7.4-r2
1.7.5-r0
1.8.0-r0
1.9.0-r0
1.9.1-r0
1.10.0-r0
1.10.0-r1

Alpine:v3.4

c-ares

Package

Name
c-ares
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/c-ares?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.12.0-r0

Affected versions

1.*

1.6.0-r0
1.6.0-r1
1.7.0-r0
1.7.0-r1
1.7.3-r0
1.7.4-r0
1.7.4-r1
1.7.4-r2
1.7.5-r0
1.8.0-r0
1.9.0-r0
1.9.1-r0
1.10.0-r0
1.10.0-r1
1.11.0-r0

Alpine:v3.5

c-ares

Package

Name
c-ares
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/c-ares?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.12.0-r0

Affected versions

1.*

1.6.0-r0
1.6.0-r1
1.7.0-r0
1.7.0-r1
1.7.3-r0
1.7.4-r0
1.7.4-r1
1.7.4-r2
1.7.5-r0
1.8.0-r0
1.9.0-r0
1.9.1-r0
1.10.0-r0
1.10.0-r1
1.11.0-r0

Alpine:v3.6

c-ares

Package

Name
c-ares
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/c-ares?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.12.0-r0

Affected versions

1.*

1.6.0-r0
1.6.0-r1
1.7.0-r0
1.7.0-r1
1.7.3-r0
1.7.4-r0
1.7.4-r1
1.7.4-r2
1.7.5-r0
1.8.0-r0
1.9.0-r0
1.9.1-r0
1.10.0-r0
1.10.0-r1
1.11.0-r0

nodejs

Package

Name
nodejs
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/nodejs?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.8.0-r0

Affected versions

4.*

4.4.3-r0
4.4.4-r0
4.4.5-r0
4.4.7-r0
4.5.0-r0