DEBIAN-CVE-2025-48945

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-48945
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-48945.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-48945
Upstream
Published
2025-06-20T20:15:33.570Z
Modified
2025-11-20T10:18:23.598061Z
Severity
  • 8.2 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

pycares is a Python module which provides an interface to c-ares. c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolutions asynchronously. Prior to version 4.9.0, pycares is vulnerable to a use-after-free condition that occurs when a Channel object is garbage collected while DNS queries are still pending. This results in a fatal Python error and interpreter crash. The vulnerability has been fixed in pycares 4.9.0 by implementing a safe channel destruction mechanism.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / pycares

Package

Name
pycares
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/pycares?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*

3.1.1-1

4.*

4.1.2-1
4.1.2-2
4.3.0-1
4.3.0-2
4.4.0-1
4.4.0-2
4.9.0-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-48945.json"

Debian:12 / pycares

Package

Name
pycares
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/pycares?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

4.*

4.3.0-2
4.4.0-1
4.4.0-2
4.9.0-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-48945.json"

Debian:13 / pycares

Package

Name
pycares
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/pycares?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

4.*

4.4.0-2
4.9.0-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-48945.json"

Debian:14 / pycares

Package

Name
pycares
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/pycares?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.9.0-1

Affected versions

4.*

4.4.0-2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-48945.json"