c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. When /dev/urandom or RtlGenRandom() are unavailable, c-ares uses rand() to generate random numbers used for DNS query ids. This is not a CSPRNG, and it is also not seeded by srand() so will generate predictable output. Input from the random number generator is fed into a non-compilant RC4 implementation and may not be as strong as the original RC4 implementation. No attempt is made to look for modern OS-provided CSPRNGs like arc4random() that is widely available. This issue has been fixed in version 1.19.1.
References
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https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/releases/tag/cares-1_19_1 | Release Notes |
https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-8r8p-23f3-64c2 | Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5Z5XFNXTNPTCBBVXFDNZQVLLIE6VRBY/ | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UBFWILTA33LOSV23P44FGTQQIDRJHIY7/ | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-09 | Third Party Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2023-05-25T21:55:47.585Z
Updated: 2023-05-25T21:55:47.585Z
Reserved: 2023-04-24T21:44:10.418Z
Link: CVE-2023-31147
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2023-05-25T22:15:09.833
Modified: 2023-10-31T16:06:05.103
Link: CVE-2023-31147
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