- c-ares 1.27.0
Security:
* Moderate. CVE-2024-25629. Reading malformatted /etc/resolv.conf,
/etc/nsswitch.conf or the HOSTALIASES file could result in a crash.
GHSA-mg26-v6qh-x48q (CVE-2024-25629, bsc#1220279)
Features:
* New function ares_queue_active_queries() to retrieve number of in-flight
queries. PR #712
* New function ares_queue_wait_empty() to wait for the number of in-flight
queries to reach zero. PR #710
* New ARES_FLAG_NO_DEFLT_SVR for ares_init_options() to return a failure if
no DNS servers can be found rather than attempting to use 127.0.0.1. This
also introduces a new ares status code of ARES_ENOSERVER. PR #713
Changes:
* EDNS Packet size should be 1232 as per DNS Flag Day. PR #705
Bugfixes:
* Fix warning due to ignoring return code of write(). PR #709
* CMake: don't override target output locations if not top-level. Issue #708
* Fix building c-ares without thread support. PR #700