CVE-2026-33630

High

Description

c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. From ver 1.32.3 until 1.34.7, a use-after-free / double-free in c-ares' query-completion handling. The same flaw — a query's callback being invoked while the query is still linked in the channel's internal lookup structures — is present at multiple points in the resend/finish path (timeout handling, response handling, and query dispatch). If the query, or for ares_getaddrinfo() the owning host_query, is freed as a side effect of that callback, it is then accessed and/or freed a second time. This vulnerability is fixed in ver 1.34.7.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.5
Exploit probability—
ProductC-ares
PublishedSep 3, 2026
First seenSep 3, 2026

How to fix

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Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
c-ares c-ares>= 1.32.3, < 1.34.7—

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CVE-2026-33630 · C-ares · Dark Radar