USN-6164-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in c-ares. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Original advisory details: Hannes Moesl discovered that c-ares incorrectly handled certain ipv6 addresses. An attacker could use this issue to cause c-ares to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-31130) Xiang Li discovered that c-ares incorrectly handled certain UDP packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause c-res to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-32067)
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