CVE-2020-14354

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14354
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-14354.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-14354
Downstream
Published
2021-05-13T14:15:17Z
Modified
2026-05-18T05:53:23Z
Severity
  • 3.3 (Low) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

A possible use-after-free and double-free in c-ares lib version 1.16.0 if ares_destroy() is called prior to ares_getaddrinfo() completing. This flaw possibly allows an attacker to crash the service that uses c-ares lib. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to this service availability.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges":  [
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "last_affected":  "33"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_FIELD",
            "vendor_product":  "fedoraproject:fedora"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/c-ares/c-ares

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last Affected
077a587dccbe2f0d8a1987fbd3525333705c2249
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:c-ares:c-ares:1.16.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected":  "1.16.0"
        }
    ],
    "source":  "CPE_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

Other
c-ares-1_2_0
cares-1_10_0
cares-1_11_0
cares-1_11_0-rc1
cares-1_12_0
cares-1_13_0
cares-1_14_0
cares-1_15_0
cares-1_16_0
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

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-14354.json"