CVE-2016-5180
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5180
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5180.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-5180
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2016-10-03T15:59:03.270Z
- Modified
- 2026-06-18T03:54:47.517927859Z
- 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.
- Database specific
{ "unresolved_ranges": [ { "vendor_product": "c-ares:c-ares", "extracted_events": [ { "last_affected": "1.0.0" }, { "last_affected": "1.3.0" } ], "source": "CPE_STRING", "cpes": [ "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" ] }, { "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux", "extracted_events": [ { "last_affected": "12.04" }, { "last_affected": "14.04" }, { "last_affected": "16.04" }, { "last_affected": "16.10" } ], "source": "CPE_STRING", "cpes": [ "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" ] }, { "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux", "extracted_events": [ { "last_affected": "8.0" } ], "source": "CPE_STRING", "cpes": [ "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" ] } ] }- References
-
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93243
- https://c-ares.haxx.se/CVE-2016-5180.patch
- https://c-ares.haxx.se/adv_20160929.html
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0002.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3682
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3143-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-28
- https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.in/2016/09/stable-channel-updates-for-chrome-os.html
Affected packages
Git / github.com/c-ares/c-ares
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedLast affectedLast affectedLast affectedLast affectedLast affectedLast affectedLast affectedLast affectedLast affectedLast affectedLast affectedLast affectedLast affectedLast affectedLast affectedLast affectedLast affectedLast affectedLast affectedLast affectedLast affectedLast affected
- Database specific
{ "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "last_affected": "1.1.0" }, { "last_affected": "1.2.0" }, { "last_affected": "1.2.1" }, { "last_affected": "1.3.1" }, { "last_affected": "1.3.2" }, { "last_affected": "1.4.0" }, { "last_affected": "1.5.0" }, { "last_affected": "1.5.1" }, { "last_affected": "1.5.2" }, { "last_affected": "1.5.3" }, { "last_affected": "1.6.0" }, { "last_affected": "1.7.0" }, { "last_affected": "1.7.1" }, { "last_affected": "1.7.2" }, { "last_affected": "1.7.3" }, { "last_affected": "1.7.4" }, { "last_affected": "1.7.5" }, { "last_affected": "1.8.0" }, { "last_affected": "1.9.0" }, { "last_affected": "1.9.1" }, { "last_affected": "1.10.0" }, { "last_affected": "1.11.0" } ], "source": "CPE_STRING", "cpe": [ "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares_project:c-ares:1.11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" ] }
Affected versions
Other
c-ares-1_2_0
cares-1_10_0
cares-1_11_0
cares-1_11_0-rc1
cares-1_1_0
cares-1_2_1
cares-1_3_1
cares-1_3_2
cares-1_4_0
cares-1_5_0
cares-1_5_1
cares-1_5_2
cares-1_5_3
cares-1_6_0
cares-1_7_0
cares-1_7_1
cares-1_7_2
cares-1_7_3
cares-1_7_4
cares-1_7_5
cares-1_8_0
cares-1_9_0
cares-1_9_1
curl-7_10_8
curl-7_11_0
curl-7_11_1
curl-7_12_0
curl-7_12_1
curl-7_12_2
curl-7_13_0
curl-7_13_1
curl-7_13_2
curl-7_14_0
curl-7_14_1
curl-7_15_0
curl-7_15_1
curl-7_15_3
curl-7_15_4
curl-7_15_5
curl-7_15_6-prepipeline
curl-7_16_0
curl-7_16_1
curl-7_16_2
curl-7_16_3
curl-7_16_4
curl-7_17_0
curl-7_17_1
curl-7_18_0
curl-7_18_1
curl-7_18_2
curl-7_19_0
curl-7_19_2
curl-7_19_3
curl-7_19_4
curl-7_19_5
curl-7_19_6
curl-7_19_7
curl-7_20_0
Git / github.com/nodejs/node
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/nodejs/node
- Events
- Database specific
{ "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "0.10.0" }, { "fixed": "0.10.48" }, { "introduced": "0.12.0" }, { "fixed": "0.12.17" }, { "introduced": "4.0.0" }, { "fixed": "4.6.1" } ], "source": "CPE_RANGE", "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" }