AutoTools does not set CARES_RANDOM_FILE during cross compilation
Summary
AutoTools does not set CARES_RANDOM_FILE during cross compilation
Original description
The description as published by the source.
c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. When cross-compiling c-ares and using the autotools build system, CARES_RANDOM_FILE will not be set, as seen when cross compiling aarch64 android. This will downgrade to using rand() as a fallback which could allow an attacker to take advantage of the lack of entropy by not using a CSPRNG. This issue was patched in version 1.19.1.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-31124 c-ares
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory security.gentoo.org
- web github.com
- web lists.fedoraproject.org
- web lists.fedoraproject.org