Monday 30th January 2023
Fedora Project
Updated rbldnsd (0.998b) in Rawhide to port non-autoconf configure script to C99
Local Packages
Updated c-ares to 1.19.0:
Security
Stack overflow in ares_set_sortlist(), which is used during c-ares initialization and typically provided by an administrator and not an end user
Changes
- Windows: drop support for XP and derivatives, which greatly cleans up initialization code
Add ARES_OPT_HOSTS_FILE similar to ARES_OPT_RESOLVCONF for specifying a custom hosts file location
- Add vcpkg installation instructions
Bug fixes
Fix cross-compilation from Windows to Linux due to CPACK logic
Fix memory leak in reading /etc/hosts when using localhost fallback
Fix chain building c-ares when libresolv is already included by another project
- File lookup should not immediately abort as there may be other tries due to search criteria
Asterisks should be allowed in host validation as CNAMEs may reference wildcard domains
AutoTools build system referenced bad STDC_HEADERS macro
Even if one address class returns a failure for ares_getaddrinfo(), we should still return the results we have
- CMake Windows: DLLs did not include resource file to include versions
- CMake: guard target creation in exported config
Fix ares_getaddrinfo() numerical address resolution with AF_UNSPEC
Apple: fix libresolv configured query times
- Fix tools and help information
- Various documentation fixes and clean-ups
Add include guards to ares_data.h
c-ares could try to exceed maximum number of iovec entries supported by system
- CMake package config generation allow for absolute install paths
- Intel compiler fixes
ares_strsplit bugs
The RFC6761 6.3 states localhost subdomains must be offline too
Updated rbldnsd (0.998b) to port non-autoconf configure script to C99 as per the Fedora version