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C-ares

5 CVEs tracked since 2016. Since Oct 2016, none of them reached CISA KEV.

C-ares CVEs per month

Oct 2016 to May 2023. Point at a month, or focus the strip and use the arrow keys.
C-ares CVEs per month, with the share now in CISA KEV
MonthCVEsIn CISA KEV
2016-1010
2016-11null or fewer
2016-12null or fewer
2017-01null or fewer
2017-02null or fewer
2017-03null or fewer
2017-04null or fewer
2017-05null or fewer
2017-06null or fewer
2017-07null or fewer
2017-08null or fewer
2017-09null or fewer
2017-10null or fewer
2017-11null or fewer
2017-12null or fewer
2018-01null or fewer
2018-02null or fewer
2018-03null or fewer
2018-04null or fewer
2018-05null or fewer
2018-06null or fewer
2018-07null or fewer
2018-08null or fewer
2018-09null or fewer
2018-10null or fewer
2018-11null or fewer
2018-12null or fewer
2019-01null or fewer
2019-02null or fewer
2019-03null or fewer
2019-04null or fewer
2019-05null or fewer
2019-06null or fewer
2019-07null or fewer
2019-08null or fewer
2019-09null or fewer
2019-10null or fewer
2019-11null or fewer
2019-12null or fewer
2020-01null or fewer
2020-02null or fewer
2020-03null or fewer
2020-04null or fewer
2020-05null or fewer
2020-06null or fewer
2020-07null or fewer
2020-08null or fewer
2020-09null or fewer
2020-10null or fewer
2020-11null or fewer
2020-12null or fewer
2021-01null or fewer
2021-02null or fewer
2021-03null or fewer
2021-04null or fewer
2021-05null or fewer
2021-06null or fewer
2021-07null or fewer
2021-08null or fewer
2021-09null or fewer
2021-10null or fewer
2021-11null or fewer
2021-12null or fewer
2022-01null or fewer
2022-02null or fewer
2022-03null or fewer
2022-04null or fewer
2022-05null or fewer
2022-06null or fewer
2022-07null or fewer
2022-08null or fewer
2022-09null or fewer
2022-10null or fewer
2022-11null or fewer
2022-12null or fewer
2023-01null or fewer
2023-02null or fewer
2023-03null or fewer
2023-04null or fewer
2023-0540

Products

The products that kept showing up in C-ares's monthly top three, with their CVEs summed over those months.

  1. C-ares52 months

Latest CVEs

The 14 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting C-ares.

  1. CVE-2026-69184c-ares: CPU-exhaustion denial of service via unbounded DNS name compression pointer chains7.5
  2. CVE-2026-69186c-ares: Memory-amplification denial of service via unvalidated DNS header record counts5.3
  3. CVE-2026-33630c-ares : Use-after-free / double-free in c-ares query-completion handling, remotely triggerable via ares_getaddrinfo() over TCP7.5
  4. CVE-2025-62408c-ares has a Use After Free vulnerability when connection is cleaned up after error5.9
  5. CVE-2025-31498c-ares has a use-after-free in read_answers()7.0
  6. CVE-2024-25629c-ares out of bounds read in ares__read_line()4.4
  7. CVE-2020-22217Buffer overflow vulnerability in c-ares before 1_16_1 thru 1_17_0 via function ares_parse_soa_reply in ares_parse_soa_reply.c.5.9
  8. CVE-2023-320670-byte UDP payload DoS in c-ares7.5
  9. CVE-2023-31147Insufficient randomness in generation of DNS query IDs in c-ares5.9
  10. CVE-2023-31130Buffer Underwrite in ares_inet_net_pton()4.1
  11. CVE-2023-31124AutoTools does not set CARES_RANDOM_FILE during cross compilation3.7
  12. CVE-2020-14354A 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...3.3
  13. CVE-2017-1000381The c-ares function `ares_parse_naptr_reply()`, which is used for parsing NAPTR responses, could be triggered to read memory outside of the given input buffer if the passed in DNS response packet w...7.5
  14. CVE-2016-5180Heap-based buffer overflow in the ares_create_query 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 cod...9.8

The record

Peak rank
#81 in Oct 2016
Busiest month shown
May 2023, 4 CVEs
Months with a KEV entry
0 since Oct 2016
Monthly snapshots
2 since 2016
C-ares's full record, month by month

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