libmicrodns: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 202005-10

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libmicrodns, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

Affected packages

net-libs/libmicrodns on all architectures
Affected versions < 0.1.2
Unaffected versions >= 0.1.2

Background

libmicrodns is an mDNS library, focused on being simple and cross-platform.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libmicrodns. Please review the CVE identifiers and the upstream advisory referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All libmicrodns users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-libs/libmicrodns-0.1.2"
 

References

Release date
May 14, 2020

Latest revision
May 14, 2020: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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