USN-5034-1 fixed a vulnerability in c-ares. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.
Original advisory details:
Philipp Jeitner and Haya Shulman discovered that c-ares incorrectly
validated certain hostnames returned by DNS servers. A remote attacker
could possibly use this issue to perform Domain Hijacking attacks.
7 High
AI Score
Confidence
0.002 Low
EPSS
Percentile
52.8%