Vulnerabilites related to aio-libs - aiodns
CVE-2025-48945 (GCVE-0-2025-48945)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-20 19:14
Modified
2025-06-20 20:06
CWE
Summary
pycares is a Python module which provides an interface to c-ares. c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolutions asynchronously. Prior to version 4.9.0, pycares is vulnerable to a use-after-free condition that occurs when a Channel object is garbage collected while DNS queries are still pending. This results in a fatal Python error and interpreter crash. The vulnerability has been fixed in pycares 4.9.0 by implementing a safe channel destruction mechanism.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
aio-libs aiodns Version: < 4.9.0
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