RHSA-2026:99168 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for c-ares is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The c-ares C library defines asynchronous DNS (Domain Name System) requests and provides name resolving API.

Security Fix(es):

• c-ares: c-ares: Denial of Service via unvalidated DNS header record counts (CVE-2026-69186)
• c-ares: c-ares: CPU exhaustion denial of service via unbounded DNS name compression pointer chains (CVE-2026-69184)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 10.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 10.2 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 10.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 10.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 10.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 10.2 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - 4 years of support 10.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - 4 years of updates 10.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle 10.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle 10.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Life Cycle 10.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Life Cycle 10.2 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2538212 - CVE-2026-69186 c-ares: c-ares: Denial of Service via unvalidated DNS header record counts
• BZ - 2538396 - CVE-2026-69184 c-ares: c-ares: CPU exhaustion denial of service via unbounded DNS name compression pointer chains

CVEs

• CVE-2026-69184
• CVE-2026-69186

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important