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CVE-2020-14354

CVE-2020-14354

EPSS 0.5%CWE-120
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.
Affected products
n/a · c-ares

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References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1866838https://c-ares.haxx.se/changelog.htmlhttps://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/commit/1cc7e83c3bdfaafbc5919c95025592d8de3a170ehttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4OOYAMJVLLCLXDTHW3V5UXNULZBBK4O6/https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/158755/GS20200804145053.txt