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Ubuntu Security NoticesUSN-8844-1

USN-8844-1: c-ares vulnerability

Severity not listed 0 CVEs Published Sep 29, 2026 at 3:15 PM UTC

Summary

It was discovered that c-ares incorrectly handled certain query completion callbacks. An attacker could possibly use this issue to trigger a use- after-free or double-free, resulting in a denial of service or arbitrary code execution.

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