Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-8277  

A application that allows an attacker to trigger a DNS request for a host of their choice could trigger a Denial of Service by getting the application to resolve a DNS record with a larger number of responses.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

A application that allows an attacker to trigger a DNS request for a host of their choice could trigger a Denial of Service by getting the application to resolve a DNS record with a larger number of responses.

AVG-1280 c-ares 1.16.1-2 Medium Vulnerable

https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/issues/371