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Ubuntu 25.04 / 25.10 : c-ares vulnerability (USN-7925-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 278512

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 25.04 / 25.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-7925-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that c-ares incorrectly handled terminating certain queries after a maximum number of attempts. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause c-ares to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libc-ares-dev, libc-ares2 and / or libcares2 packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7925-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 278512

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7925-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/12/2025

Updated: 12/12/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-62408

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libc-ares2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libc-ares-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcares2, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/11/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/8/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-62408

USN: 7925-1