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Security Risk Profile
Security Risk Score
Comprehensive risk assessment based on 21 vulnerabilities, EPSS scores, exploitation status, and remediation availability.
📅 Data spans from October 3, 2016 to present
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c-ares: CPU-exhaustion denial of service via unbounded DNS name compression pointer chains
c-ares : Use-after-free / double-free in c-ares query-completion handling, remotely triggerable via ares_getaddrinfo() over TCP
c-ares has a Use After Free vulnerability when connection is cleaned up after error
c-ares has a use-after-free in read_answers()
CVE-2025-31498: c-as use-after-fe
c-ares CVE-2024-25629
c-ares out of bounds read in ares__read_line()
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