USN-8951-1: c-ares vulnerabilities

It was discovered that c-ares incorrectly parsed certain SOA replies. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause c-ares to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-22217) It was discovered that c-ares incorrectly handled certain sortlist strings. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause c-ares to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-4904) It was discovered that c-ares did not properly limit DNS compression pointer hops or assembled name lengths when parsing DNS names. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause c-ares to use excessive resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-69184) It was discovered that c-ares did not properly validate record count fields before allocating memory when parsing DNS responses. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause c-ares to use excessive resources, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-69186)